Astronomers have determined that VVV CL001, a metal-poor globular cluster near the center of the Milky Way, is about 13.4 ...

Somewhere in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius, about twenty-five thousand light-years away, sits the anchor of ...

A figure in red trudges across a blanket of white. Snow squeaks under the scientist's feet, too dry to be slick or soft. Only ...

Solar twin refractory depletion -- why the Sun carries fewer calcium, aluminum, and titanium than 80 percent of similar stars ...

Earth have between just 4% and 25% of the oxygen that their stars are known to have produced. Scientists are not sure where ...

Galactic archaeologists are using precise measures and larger sample sizes afforded by new missions to tease apart minute differences between groups of stars, revealing the history of the Milky Way ...

A Hubble-based census of 37 nearby dwarf galaxies finds they hold on average just 11% of the oxygen their own stars forged, and as little as 4%. Supernova winds ...

IntroductionThis article is a guide for those who have already decided to travel to Yoron, or are on the verge of doing so.

Crowded star clusters in the early Universe could have built giant stars, seeded black holes and fed the mysterious little ...

When astronomers first saw the little red dots, they thought the objects were the glow of very populous mature galaxies. But ...

Nov. 6, 2026 After nearly 22 years of exploring the universe’s most violent explosions, NASA’s Swift Observatory has re-entered Earth’s atmosphere over Indonesia. Originally designed to last just two ...

JWST measurements reveal unusual chemical signatures in 3I/ATLAS, suggesting the interstellar comet formed in an extremely ...