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.

Earth seems like a troubled place right now, but at least our cosmic surroundings appear peaceful. This is not universally ...

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 ...

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, ...

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

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

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 ...

A new type of object found in the early universe has puzzled astronomers for years, but they may finally have some answers.

If you look across space with a telescope, you’ll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, billions of stars and their attendant planets. The universe teems with huge, ...

Researchers are now recreating that transition with some of the most detailed simulations of the early Universe yet produced.

Sydney, Oct 6 (The Conversation) Earth seems like a troubled place right now, but at least our cosmic surroundings appear peaceful ...