The first generation of stars that were born in the universe are a mystery. We can estimate when they existed and even how big they might have gotten, but direct evidence has been lacking. Now, JWST ...

There are several candidates for the biggest star in the universe. One of them, VY Canis Majoris, is over 1,500 times the width of the sun. If it were placed in our solar system, it would stretch to ...

Astronomers have announced a candidate for the universe's first generation of stars. While sifting through observations of the earliest known galaxies, they flagged one small dwarf galaxy, ...

They shaped the Universe, yet the first stars ever born continue to evade the searches of astronomers like Dr Emma Chapman ...

From degeneracy to galactic archaeology, white dwarfs are helping scientists make sense of some of the universe's burning ...

On Christmas Day 2021, alongside other astronomers, I watched the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launch from French Guiana and begin its month-long journey to its destination, 1.5 million ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered traces of colossal, short‑lived stars that blazed out in the universe’s first few hundred million years, leaving behind only their violent signatures.

Were massive stars in the early universe born in pairs? A new study from the School of Physics and Astronomy at Tel Aviv University reveals that most massive stars formed in the early universe were ...

JWST has revealed a strange early universe filled with ultra-bright “blue monster” galaxies, mysterious “little red dots,” ...

Mysterious blasts of radio waves from across the universe called fast radio bursts help astronomers catalog matter. ESO/M. Kornmesser, CC BY-SA Chris Impey, University of Arizona If you look across ...