Although the findings are yet to be confirmed, it marks the closest astronomers have come to locating these ancient stars ...

Astronomers believe they've discovered some of the universe's earliest stars, located about 13 billion light-years from Earth ...

"We really needed the sensitivity of JWST. We also needed the 100 times magnification from gravitational lensing from a ...

Long ago, before galaxies formed into shapes we are familiar with today and before planets formed, the earliest stars ignited the young cosmic clouds. If you stood inside one of those ancient ...

The discovery of a superheated star factory that forms stars 180 times faster than our own Milky Way could help solve a ...

A far-away galaxy, GS-NDG-9422 (above), has features uncommon to other star systems that researchers are connecting to the early universe. NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Alex Cameron (Oxford) It actually was ...

Astronomers could use specific radio signals from the universe's earliest epoch to "weigh" the first stars in the cosmos. The investigation could reveal more about the so-called Cosmic Dawn, the ...

Physicists including Robert H. Dickle and Fred Hoyle have argued that we are living in a universe that is perfectly fine-tuned for life. Following the anthropic principle, they claimed that the only ...

Massive stars do not live long. There are several candidates for the biggest star in the universe. One of them, VY Canis Majoris, is over 1,500 times the width of the sun. If it were placed in our ...

(CNN) — New hints from one of the most extensive surveys of the cosmos to date suggest that mysterious dark energy may be evolving in ways that could shift how astronomers understand the universe.

Pt. I, Stars, planets, and life : -- The size and scale of the universe -- From the day and night sky to planetary orbits -- Newton's Laws -- How stars radiate energy (I) -- How stars radiate energy ...