Not all stars are created equally. Astronomers believe that the first stars to form after the Big Bang were mostly made of ...

We thought we understood planets, but the planetary disk chemistry of far-away XUE 10 is completely changing our conception ...

Gold, uranium, and other heavy elements on Earth did not form here. They were born in the violent deaths of massive stars and the collisions of neutron stars, traveling across the galaxy before ...

A surprising new study reveals that the first stars appeared in a pre-heated universe, challenging earlier ideas about early cosmic conditions.

Some classes of stars create light elements, such as oxygen and silicon; others also craft heavier ones, such as iron and nickel. Once a star dies, it spews out these materials to be incorporated into ...

Now, astronomers have found a star that may be as close as we’ve ever come to witnessing one of the primordial stars. Known ...

At just 25, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin applied quantum physics to a treasure trove of astronomical observations to show that stars are mostly hydrogen and helium.

Scientists figured out that the universe is billions of years old - after years of reading ancient rocks and dying stars, and ...

A recent Physical Review Letters study presents a new model for quark star merger ejecta that could resolve whether these ...

About 4. 6 billion years ago, the Solar System formed from a cloud of dust and gas collapsing in on itself due to gravity.

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Pan Haitian, born in 1975 in Fujian province, graduated from Tsinghua University's Department of Architecture and is regarded ...