"We really needed the sensitivity of JWST. We also needed the 100 times magnification from gravitational lensing from a ...

Astronomers believe they've discovered some of the universe's earliest stars, located about 13 billion light-years from Earth ...

A new space telescope with Irish scientific involvement goes into operation this week on a mission to study how stars behave ...

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Left: section of the MIRI image. Right: section of the NIRCam image. NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Adam Ginsburg (University of Florida), Nazar Budaiev (University of Florida), Taehwa Yoo (University of ...

Astronomers have chased the first stars for decades, squinting at the early universe for any hint of their brief, brilliant ...

The “Seven Sisters” have far more relatives than anyone imagined. Using NASA and ESA space telescopes, astronomers found ...

A handful of extremely massive stars, each heavier than 1,000 Suns, may have sculpted the chemistry of the oldest star ...

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Far from Earth, drifting between the stars, lies a quiet ocean of carbon. Astronomers call it the interstellar medium, a vast realm where simple and complex molecules float through cold clouds of gas ...