A discovery of binary stars could be the first step in building a more complete picture of how our galaxy formed, according ...

A surprising new study reveals that the first stars appeared in a pre-heated universe, challenging earlier ideas about early cosmic conditions.

Astronomers have uncovered a vast cloud of energetic particles surrounding one of the most distant galaxy clusters ever observed, marking a major step forward in understanding the hidden forces that ...

Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to hear from Kelsey Johnson, professor of astronomy and director of the Echols Scholars Program at the University of Virginia, at ...

According to the model, dark matter may have started as particles that were hot, light, massless, and fast. As the universe ...

Not all stars are created equally. Astronomers believe that the first stars to form after the Big Bang were mostly made of ...

New information from a distant corner of the universe may lead to a fuller understanding of how the elements of the periodic table–which make up all the familiar matter in the universe–come to be. A ...

By listening for ghostly radio echoes from the early Universe, scientists believe future Moon missions could determine what ...

A team of astronomers believe they may have found the most "pristine" star in the universe to date. According to the team, the gas that formed this star may have come from an elusive "population III" ...

According to the equations that govern black holes, the larger one of these cosmic behemoths is the lower its average density ...

Quantum mechanics is everywhere, from powering the phone you’re reading this on to the galaxies that are formed with colliding stars, everything has to be understood at a molecular level that is based ...