An international team led by ICREA researcher Mark Gieles, from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of ...
Astronomers have chased the first stars for decades, squinting at the early universe for any hint of their brief, brilliant ...
A giant star that is still being consumed by a supermassive black hole may have caused the largest flare of its kind ever ...
The Methuselah Star, also known asHD 140283, has long been a subject of fascination among astronomers. Its age, initially estimated to be older than the universe itself, challenged our understanding ...
A remarkable new study challenges the findings of Nobel Prize winning research into how our universe has changed over time.
The universe's expansion may actually have started to slow rather than accelerating at an ever-increasing rate as previously ...
Researchers analyzing JWST observations of LAP1-B determined the distant galaxy exhibits properties consistent with the ...
Astronomers observed the fading light of supernova SN 2025kg, which followed the fast X-ray transient (FXT) named EP 250108a.
The night sky may look calm, but behind the glowing points of light lies a violent and complex process of creation. Stars, ...
A star found in the Large Magellanic Cloud is remarkably unpolluted by heavier elements, suggesting it is descended from the universe’s earliest stars ...