Chemistry in the first 50 million to 100 million years after the Big Bang may have been more active than we expected.

Scientists led by Tel Aviv University’s Tomer Shenar, with Hugues Sana of KU Leuven and Julia Bodensteiner of the University ...

Astronomers have glimpsed the inner structure of a dying star in a rare kind of cosmic explosion called an "extremely stripped supernova." ...

Astronomers have seen a lot of stars explode, but one unusual stellar death is forcing them to rethink what they thought they ...

These stars formed new chemical elements, which enriched the universe and allowed the next generations of stars to form the first planets.

Astronomers have long known that many of the largest stars in our Milky Way do not live alone but instead exist in pairs. Now ...

In a recent study published in Nature Astronomy, astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered an ...

For the first time, astronomers have observed clear evidence for a heavily stripped star that has shed many of its outer layers before its death in a supernova explosion. Led by Steve Schulze at ...

Researchers led by Northwestern University and the Weizmann Institute have discovered a new type of supernova that offers a rare glimpse into the depths of massive stars and exposes hidden sites where ...

Some stars lose their outer hydrogen layers before they explode. These “stripped stars” reveal their inner layers, including ...