Scientists figured out that the universe is billions of years old — after years of reading ancient rocks and dying stars, and ...
Scientists have found a remarkably small yet bright object from the early universe that doesn’t make sense in our existing models of how stars and galaxies formed, even our own Milky Way. That means ...
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'Most pristine' star ever seen discovered at the Milky Way's edge — and could be a direct descendant of the universe's first stars
Astronomers have discovered a surprisingly "pristine" red giant with the lowest concentration of heavy elements ever seen in ...
The early universe was already warm before reionization, revealing that the first stars did not flicker on in an icy cosmos.
If there is an absolute law in the universe, it’s that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. Space is big, and while the speed of light is incredibly fast to us humans, on interstellar ...
IT IS ONE of the biggest mysteries in cosmology—and getting bigger all the time. Ever since Edwin Hubble, an American astronomer, published observations of distant galaxies in 1929, scientists have ...
Rob Coyne receives funding from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the US National Science Foundation (NSF). About a century ago, scientists were struggling to reconcile what ...
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