The James Webb Space Telescope may have discovered Population III stars, the universe's first generation of stars. They may ...

Long ago, before galaxies formed into shapes we are familiar with today and before planets formed, the earliest stars ignited ...

The discovery of a superheated star factory that forms stars 180 times faster than our own Milky Way could help solve a ...

Understanding how the universe transitioned from darkness to light with the formation of the first stars and galaxies is a key turning point in the universe's development, known as the Cosmic Dawn.

Understanding how the universe transitioned from darkness to the emergence of stars marks a critical shift known as Cosmic Dawn. Yet, astronomers have struggled to unravel details about the first ...

The discovery indicates how galaxies could have grown quickly when the universe was very young, solving a long-standing ...

Massive stars do not live long. There are several candidates for the biggest star in the universe. One of them, VY Canis Majoris, is over 1,500 times the width of the sun. If it were placed in our ...

The findings call into question just how finely tuned our universe really is. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Somewhere in the ...

(CNN) — New hints from one of the most extensive surveys of the cosmos to date suggest that mysterious dark energy may be evolving in ways that could shift how astronomers understand the universe.

Physicists including Robert H. Dickle and Fred Hoyle have argued that we are living in a universe that is perfectly fine-tuned for life. Following the anthropic principle, they claimed that the only ...