New images from the James Webb Space Telescope captured the irregular galaxy NGC 6822, showing it has unusually low metallicity. NASA says this means the galactic neighbor doesn't have many elements ...

Eighteen-year-old Mariah Jones has a passion for science. “Astronomy has been a keen interest of mine for many years now; I have always had a fascination with the exploration of the universe and have ...

When astronomers look deep into the early universe, the expectation is simple. You should see young galaxies still assembling ...

In the vast and diverse Universe, the initial mass distribution at the birth of a new population of stars determines the fate of galaxies. This relationship is described by the Initial Mass Function ...

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have made a groundbreaking discovery about how dust forms in some of the earliest galaxies. The study focuses on the dwarf galaxy Sextans A, one of ...

With billions of stars in our home galaxy and billions more galaxies out in the gargantuan universe, the task of finding exoplanets that may host life might seem an insurmountable task. Now, however, ...

On the outskirts of the nearby Andromeda Galaxy, researchers have unexpectedly discovered a globular cluster (GC) - a massive congregation of relic stars - with a very low abundance of chemical ...

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It's possible not enough of their stars explode in supernovas. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Some of the biggest, most intense ...

'This is something we’ve never seen in stars that are analogs of stars in the early universe,' an astronomer said.