Researchers have used some of the most detailed simulations yet of the early universe to investigate how the first stars and ...

MEGATRON is a good guy!?! Well, at least to cosmologists who are using this simulation to transform our understanding of the universe's first stars.

The true nature of the invisible substance "dark matter" remains one of the great mysteries in modern cosmology. We ...

Ultra-detailed simulations are showing how the first stars lit up the dark Universe and seeded space with elements such as carbon, oxygen, and iron. The MEGATRON project could bridge JWST observations ...

Scientists study some of the universe's earliest objects (stars that formed soon after the Big Bang as they provide valuable information on how our universe evolved from its earliest days, through the ...

The more astronomers learn about the universe's earliest galaxies, the stranger they seem. Many of their surprising ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This artist’s concept shows the relative sizes of various stars, from the smallest “red dwarfs” at about a tenth of a solar mass, ...

Does the Universe Need a Breach in the Silence?The universe has no words.Even when light streaks through a vacuum, stars ...

New Hubble Space Telescope TEMPOS survey of 29 massive stars in extremely metal-poor galaxies finds unexpectedly weak stellar winds and delivers the largest-ever dataset ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mysterious blasts of radio waves from across the universe called fast radio bursts help astronomers catalog matter. ESO/M.

Led by the University of Chicago’s Alexander Ji—a former Carnegie Observatories postdoctoral fellow—and including Carnegie astrophysicist Juna Kollmeier—who leads SDSS, now in its fifth generation—the ...