Astronomers have discovered a primeval but the most pristine star ever found in the universe. According to a research team ...

In early July 2025, a telescope system designed to spot potential threats to Earth made a surprising discovery. The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, better known as ATLAS, detected a ...

An international team of astronomers has used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to observe a well-known ...

Dutch astronomer was authority on stellar evolution, and remained in Ireland following move to Armagh in 1970s ...

Comets SWAN and Lemmon will both swing by Earth and appear bright in the sky near the end of October. Here’s how to see them.

A mysterious space object named 2023 KQ14, nicknamed “Ammonite,” challenges theories about the mysterious and possible Planet ...

Now, astronomers have found a star that may be as close as we’ve ever come to witnessing one of the primordial stars. Known ...

Space scientists look back on three decades of exoplanet discoveries—from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope may have found the universe’s first “dark stars.” Within the first few hundred million years after the Big Bang, the universe’s earliest stars took ...

The early universe was already warm before reionization, revealing that the first stars did not flicker on in an icy cosmos.

The low carbon levels are particularly interesting, as previously discovered “pristine” or metal-poor stars generally ...