The youngest and most metal-rich stars, such as the Sun, are called Population I. Older stars with fewer metals are Population II. The oldest stars, the very first stars to appear in the Universe, are ...
A century ago, Edwin Hubble unveiled a groundbreaking discovery that revolutionized humanity’s understanding of the cosmos.
Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...
A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...
Measuring distances across the universe is much more challenging than measuring distances on Earth. Is a brighter star closer ...
But researchers have used the James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of NASA and its European and Canadian space ...
Researchers believe that a supernova in our galaxy could reveal the secrets of dark matter by emitting detectable gamma rays ...