Astronomers using data from ESA's Euclid and Herschel space telescopes have confirmed that star formation has already peaked ...

The James Webb Space Telescope may have discovered Population III stars, the universe's first generation of stars. They may ...

Rest assured that as everything seems to be falling apart on Earth, it also appears that the rest of the universe is on a ...

“The Universe will just get colder and deader from now on,” added Douglas Scott, study author and a cosmologist at the ...

Discover seven of the universe’s rarest stars, including white dwarf pulsars and red hypergiants. Learn why astronomers ...

An international team led by ICREA researcher Mark Gieles, from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of ...

A new study suggests that during a potential phase of primordial matter domination, particle interactions may have led to the formation of the universe’s first compact cosmic objects. Less than a ...

The Euclid telescope launched in 2023, hitching a ride on SpaceX's Falcon 9 to study the cosmos from the Sun-Earth Lagrange point 2, 1.5 million kilometers (932,000 miles) from Earth. Its job is a big ...

A team of astrophysicists has unveiled how colossal stars thousands of times more massive than the Sun shaped the earliest star clusters and galaxies. These short-lived giants not only forged the ...

The discovery of a superheated star factory that forms stars 180 times faster than our own Milky Way could help solve a ...

In the blink of an eye after the Big Bang, the universe could have birthed strange new stars and black holes.