All around us are elements forged in stars, from the nickel and copper in coins to the gold and silver in jewelry. Scientists ...

All around us are elements forged in stars, from the nickel and copper in coins to the gold and silver in jewelry. Scientists ...

For decades, scientists believed that gold and other heavy elements were born from the cataclysmic collision of neutron stars ...

How heavy can an element be? An international team of researchers has found that ancient stars were capable of producing elements with atomic masses greater than 260, heavier than any element on the ...

For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like. These stars formed new chemical elements, which enriched the universe and allowed the next generations of ...

Astronomers from The University of Western Australia’s node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have developed a new way to study star formation in galaxies from the dawn ...

Over the course of billions of years, the universe has steadily been evolving. Thanks to the expansion of the universe, we ...

Long ago, before galaxies formed into shapes we are familiar with today and before planets formed, the earliest stars ignited ...

For the first time, scientists have built a digital version of the Milky Way that follows the motion of individual stars, not ...

Chemistry in the first 50 million to 100 million years after the Big Bang may have been more active than we expected. This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication ...