Known as dinosaur stars for both their primeval nature and their immense size, Population III stars existed only when the ...

An extremely early Type II supernova explosion, named after the Titan goddess of dawn in Greek mythology, occurred just 1 ...

After the Big Bang, the Universe entered a long, dark period before the first stars formed. During this era, hydrogen emitted a faint radio signal that still echoes today. New simulations show this ...

Astronomers realized that a strange cloud of gas was actually a relic of the ancient universe which might help solve some of ...

Astronomers have confirmed the earliest barred spiral galaxy in the universe, a Milky-Way-like structure that existed just 2 ...

Wormholes are often imagined as tunnels through space or time—shortcuts across the universe. But this image rests on a ...

Nearly everything in the universe is made of mysterious dark matter and dark energy, yet we can’t see either of them directly ...

When analyzing early universe data, the Standard Model of Cosmology suggests that the universe should be more “clumpy” that ...

If dark stars existed, they would have been capable of forming in the universe before ordinary stars could have formed. When ...