Even before the first stars lit up the Universe, the Cosmos was not the cold place most researchers once imagined. New ...

Why Sagittarius B2 produces so many stars in comparison to the rest of the galactic center has remained an enduring mystery ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope confirmed Earendel, the most distant star, shining just one billion years after the Big ...

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Star formation is a fundamental physical process in our universe. Stars light up the cosmos, and give rise to planets, some ...

Primordial magnetic fields, billions of times weaker than a fridge magnet, may have left lasting imprints on the Universe.

The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered dazzling newborn stars and thick cosmic dust in Sagittarius B2, the Milky Way's ...

A surprising new study reveals that the first stars appeared in a pre-heated universe, challenging earlier ideas about early cosmic conditions.

Most cosmologists believe that these stars were the first large, free-floating structures to illuminate our universe, and ...

Chemistry in the first 50 million to 100 million years after the Big Bang may have been more active than we expected.

A maelstrom of star formation close to the center of our galaxy has been revealed in two different wavelengths by the James ...