"Cosmic archaeologists" have discovered an iron-deficient second-generation star, which provides evidence of how ancient ...

"Project Hail Mary" is wholesome science fiction that satisfies like a jumbo serving of apple pie and milk. A middle school ...

The Sun may have been part of a small group of stars that migrated from the core of our galaxy between 4 and 6 billion years ago.

Hundreds of mysterious objects have appeared in images captured by the Webb space telescope. The curious dots could reshape ...

T he first time I heard about galaxies without dark matter, I was sitting in my very first graduate class at the University ...

A newly discovered star suggests tiny relic galaxies like Pictor II preserved the chemical material created by the universe's ...

Discovered in the Pictor II dwarf galaxy, star PicII-503 has an extreme deficiency in iron—less than 1/40,000th of the sun.

Science in the modern era is increasingly reliant on enormous datasets and automated analysis. In astronomy, the Vera C.

With the first images from the spacecraft now in hand, the team behind NASA’s Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat, or ...

Researchers have identified a potential mechanism that explains how turbulent plasma can produce the vast, ordered magnetic ...