Our universe does host life, but it’s not the most optimal universe for life. Published in 1962 by American astronomer Frank ...

Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...

These two properties of axions mean that they are exceptionally good at collapsing down to incredibly high densities, pulled ...

The youngest and most metal-rich stars, such as the Sun, are called Population I. Older stars with fewer metals are ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is set to detect millions of exploding vampire stellar remnants called "white dwarfs," shedding ...

A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...