A groundbreaking discovery has shed new light on star formation in the early universe, revealing a galaxy that forms stars at ...

In a significant stride for cosmic evolution studies, astronomers have unveiled a galaxy that is churning out stars at a ...

The discovery indicates how galaxies could have grown quickly when the universe was very young, solving a long-standing ...

For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like. These stars formed new chemical elements, which enriched the universe and allowed the next generations of ...

The newborn planetary system appears to be emerging 1,300 light-years away around a baby star known as HOPS-315. Planet-forming materials were first identified using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

Heavy water detected in the disk of V883 Orionis; chemical signature reveals that some of the water formed before the star ...

A new study suggests that during a potential phase of primordial matter domination, particle interactions may have led to the formation of the universe’s first compact cosmic objects. Less than a ...

Two of the objects in the arrangement are cold brown dwarfs, which will serve as a benchmark for others throughout the Milky Way. By Katrina Miller Zenghua Zhang, an astronomer at Nanjing University ...

Chemistry in the first 50 million to 100 million years after the Big Bang may have been more active than we expected. This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication ...