The discovery of a colossal black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) – a dwarf galaxy that has orbited the Milky Way for billions of years – has both shocked and fascinated the global scientific ...

Now, astronomers have found a star that may be as close as we’ve ever come to witnessing one of the primordial stars. Known ...

Astronomers have observed a primeval star that they believe to be the most “pristine” object in the universe. A team led by ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a stunning view of the N79 nebula, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Credit: Space.com | imagery courtesy: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, O. Nayak, M. Meixner, ...

The star is known as SDSS J0715-7334. It is a red giant star in the halo of the Large Magellanic Cloud. The metallicity of ...

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

Astronomers have discovered a primeval but the most pristine star ever found in the universe. According to a research team ...

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" ...

Astronomers have captured the clearest picture yet of how massive stars are born, revealing a dramatic interplay between ...

The race is on to harness the near-infinite power of nuclear fusion—by building a star on Earth. And scientists are closer ...

The growth spurt hints that the free-floating object evolves like a star, providing clues about rogue planets’ mysterious origins.

The Big Bang essentially created two elements: hydrogen and helium. It also produced tiny traces of lithium and a few other ...