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

The most ‘pristine’ star in the universe discovered by astronomers - Red giant star J0715-7334 is 20,000 times purer than the ...

Astronomers have detected one of the darkest objects ever seen at a record cosmic distance—only with the assistance of ...

On the night of Oct. 5, 1923, Edwin Hubble observed a strange star that flickered in intensity at regular intervals. The star ...

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

The object was detected by observing how its gravity distorts light behind it. Astronomers have discovered an extremely faint ...

The discovery led to the realization that the universe is expanding, and that it must have had a beginning: the Big Bang.

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

A neutrino sensor array, ARCA, lines the Mediterranean seafloor near Sicily. A physicist took ARCA’s first huge win to a warm ...

Astrophysicists have presumed for nearly a century that the universe will just keep expanding for all eternity, driven by an ...

Professor Chamkaur Ghag is driving efforts to detect weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), the prime candidates for ...