For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like. These stars formed new chemical ...

Images taken with the MIRI infrared camera on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have made it possible to observe the ...

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While there's no shortage of mysteries surrounding the formation of the universe, scientists may have figured out the answer ...

For decades, astronomers have been working to explore the properties of the first generation of stars in the universe. These stars created new chemical elements, enriched the chemical composition of ...

The Universe presents an extraordinary level of balance that has fascinated scientists and thinkers for centuries. From the ...

For decades, scientists suspected this ion played a critical role in cooling the early cosmos, helping the first gas clouds ...

Dark matter is an essential element of galaxy formation and physics, according to the standard theory of how the universe formed, but a new study suggests that might not be the case.

New research suggests that primordial black holes created during the Big Bang could have played a major role in forming the ...

To determine when water first formed in the universe, Latif and his colleagues used numerical models to trace the life cycles of two first-generation stars: one was 13 times heavier than our sun ...

A team of astronomers says it has identified the most distant black hole ever confirmed — a cosmic heavyweight that formed ...

In one new theory, it is possible that dark matter exists in a mirror universe where there are only dark versions of forces ...