A team of astronomers led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian have for the first time used galactic archaeology, the study of detailed chemical fingerprints in deep space, to ...

For the first time, scientists have reconstructed the full history of a galaxy outside the Milky Way using chemical clues. By analyzing oxygen across NGC 1365 and comparing it with simulations, they ...

By reading the chemical “fingerprints” of a distant galaxy, astronomers reconstructed its 12-billion-year evolution. This new ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed new details in a bizarre nebula that looks like a brain floating in space. Formed ...

It’s “common knowledge”—and the scare quotes should be a warning—that the sun is an average star.

Two telescopes have captured images of the Cat's Eye Nebula, revealing how a dying star shed layers of material in violent ...

New observations are helping scientists peer beneath the Sun’s surface, revealing where its magnetic activity may truly begin ...

The nature of sci-fi shows often require that they create worlds out of whole cloth, but in some cases, even the ...

New UNLV-led research is helping to unravel clues to a cosmic mystery that has eluded scientists for decades. Cataclysmic ...

"This cosmic interplay produces a spectacular and dynamic landscape, revealing that the birthplaces of stars are far more ...

A rare star reveals how the Universe's first stars exploded, helping explain the Milky Way’s outer halo and its unusual chemistry.

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