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Found in an ultrafaint dwarf galaxy, the ancient star’s unusual chemistry indicates it formed from gas enriched by a single ...

J0715-7334 is built different, and appears to be a stranger in our galaxy. Could it have been born from the long-elusive ...

In a tiny, faint dwarf galaxy 150,000 light-years away, astronomers have found a star containing just 1/40,000th of the iron ...

The biggest objects in the universe are clusters of galaxies, such as the supercluster we live in right now - and including Abell 370, which was captured in a sprawling glittery space-scape by the ...

A developing galaxy cluster dating to about 1 billion years after the Big Bang is shown in this handout image released on January 28, 2026. The white box marks the field of view of the Chandra X-ray ...

A blazing supermassive black hole can influence far more than its own galaxy. Scientists found that quasars emit radiation strong enough to shut down star formation in nearby galaxies millions of ...

There may not be as nearly as many small galaxies in the early universe as astronomers predict there should be, which has big implications for the story of how our universe grew up. When you purchase ...

The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes a moment when all of space, time, and energy were born from a single infinitely dense ...

Most messages are press releases about astronomical discoveries—okay, scratch that; most of them are spam, but science announcements are an easy second place. But I also get questions from readers ...