The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has potentially made a groundbreaking discovery, detecting what could be the universe’s first generation of stars, known as Population III stars. These primordial ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed unexpectedly rapid galaxy assembly in the early Universe, in tension with galaxy-formation models 1 – 3 . At the low abundances of heavy elements ...

The formation of the first, or Population III, stars marked a pivotal epoch in cosmic history. Emerging in dark matter minihalos at redshifts of around 20–30, these metal-free objects arose from the ...

This starry view of the nearby star-forming region IC 348 is one of the largest images released to date from NASA's James ...

Scientists have discovered a galaxy as it was 13 billion years ago, 800 million years after the Big Bang. It contains possible evidence of the universe's first stars and is one of the most chemically ...

Over the course of billions of years, the universe has steadily been evolving. Thanks to the expansion of the universe, we are able to "see" back in time to watch that evolution, almost from the ...

Professor Nicolás Cuello explores crafting worlds illuminated by many suns in this astronomy and astrophysics focus ...

Star formation across the universe has fallen dramatically over the past 4.5 billion years, but astronomers have uncovered a surprising twist: the supply of neutral hydrogen, a key ingredient for ...