For decades, astronomers were only able to study the universe's very first stars using theoretical models. Now, observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed what may be the ...

The Giant Magellan Telescope enters a critical phase as funding decisions and final design work determine whether ...

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Studying the star, called SDSS J0715-7334, could give astronomers insights into how the universe's first stars were formed ...

A dim red giant just out of reach of the Milky Way is providing astronomers with an incredibly rare glimpse into the earliest ...

The ExoLife Finder (ELF) looks like no telescope ever built. A spectacular crown of 15 five-meter mirrors perches atop a ...

Check out an amazing view of star cluster NGC 602. It "lies on the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud," according to the ...

Planets, like those in our solar system, form in a bottom-up process where small bits of rock and ice clump together and grow larger over time. But the heftier the planet, the harder it is to explain ...

The star is the most chemically pristine star ever seen, with barely any heavy elements.

New research led by Gonzalo Muñoz-Sanchez at the National Observatory of Athens, published in Nature Astronomy, finds that ...

Since its launch in April 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has been an invaluable tool for astronomers in unraveling the ...

Astronomers have nicknamed the HD 61005 star system the “Moth” because it is surrounded by dust patterned similarly to the ...