Long ago, before galaxies formed into shapes we are familiar with today and before planets formed, the earliest stars ignited ...

For years, astronomers have been on the hunt for the first generation of stars, primordial relics of the early universe. And ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very ...

The very first generation of stars, called Population III stars, are mostly expected to be too distant to see directly – but ...

Frozen complex organic molecules have been discovered for the first time around a young protostar in a galaxy other than our ...

Scientists are using modern technology to peer heavenward. This is an Inside Science story. Since ancient times, people gazing up at the night sky have seen animals, gods and goddesses, and other ...

An international team of astronomers has employed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe a distant galaxy ...

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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 ...

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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 ...