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

The discovery, published in Nature Astronomy, offers a rare glimpse into the evolution of ancient stars and how they ...

Not only does the star have less metal content than our Sun, but it is also the most iron-poor known star.

A group of scientists, including a class of undergraduate students at the University of Chicago, has discovered the most ...

Research findings are available online in the journal Nature Astronomy. The original story “ Pristine star reveals the dawn ...

An unusual team of astronomers used Sloan Digital Sky Survey-V (SDSS-V) data and observations on the Magellan telescopes at ...

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

A group of undergraduate students stumbled into a cosmic time capsule—one of the oldest stars ever discovered—while combing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This artist’s concept shows the relative sizes of various stars, from the smallest “red dwarfs” at about a tenth of a solar mass, ...

A galaxy spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope, known as Hebe, that existed just 400 million years after the big bang ...

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