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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 ...
A star found in the Large Magellanic Cloud is remarkably unpolluted by heavier elements, suggesting it is descended from the ...
A faint radio "whisper" from ancient hydrogen reveals the universe was heating up long before it filled with starlight.
HD 140283, better known as the Methuselah star, is around 200 light-years from Earth, in the constellation of Libra. It is ...
New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope hint that the universe’s first stars might not have been ordinary fusion ...
A discovery of binary stars could be the first step in building a more complete picture of how our galaxy formed, according ...
The low carbon levels are particularly interesting, as previously discovered “pristine” or metal-poor stars generally ...
Now, astronomers have found a star that may be as close as we’ve ever come to witnessing one of the primordial stars. Known ...
The early universe was already warm before reionization, revealing that the first stars did not flicker on in an icy cosmos.
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