Astronomers studying the Milky Way's oldest stars have estimated that the Universe is about 13.6 billion years old.
It's a new window into the first star explosions.
In recent groundbreaking research published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, scientists from the University of Queensland have provided insights into the likely fate of our galaxy ...
It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all. Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is ...
Still in its original galaxy, a rare holdout from the second generation of stars sheds new light on the origins of the elements—and how massive supernovae reshaped the cosmos ...
A dim star orbiting the Milky Way is drawing attention for its almost pristine composition. Named PicII-503, it contains barely any heavy elements, making it one of the most extreme examples of an ...
"Cosmic archaeologists" have discovered an iron-deficient second-generation star, which provides evidence of how ancient ...
Super galaxy clusters are among the largest structures in the universe. Now, a particularly large one has been measured, ...
CWISE J1249+36, a low-mass runaway star, is traveling at an extraordinary speed that could propel it out of the Milky Way.