Even before the first stars lit up the Universe, the Cosmos was not the cold place most researchers once imagined. New ...
Understanding the early universe is a foundational goal in space science. We're driven to understand nature and how it evolved from a super-heated plasma after the Big Bang to the structured cosmos we ...
Why Sagittarius B2 produces so many stars in comparison to the rest of the galactic center has remained an enduring mystery ...
The first stars in the universe formed out of pristine hydrogen and helium clouds, in the first few hundred million years ...
New data from the James Webb Space Telescope may solve a riddle from the universe’s beginnings. A compact, distant object ...
Chemistry in the first 50 million to 100 million years after the Big Bang may have been more active than we expected.
The brilliant afterglow of a powerful gamma-ray burst (GRB) has enabled astronomers to probe the star-forming environment of a distant galaxy, resulting in the first detection of molecular gas in a ...
Star formation is a fundamental physical process in our universe. Stars light up the cosmos, and give rise to planets, some ...
"This gives us a new way to rule out certain black hole scenarios for dark matter." New research suggests that primordial black holes created during the Big Bang could have played a major role in ...
Most cosmologists believe that these stars were the first large, free-floating structures to illuminate our universe, and ...
The James Webb Space Telescope does not observe things like a regular camera that we would have on our cell phones. Instead, ...