The youngest and most metal-rich stars, such as the Sun, are called Population I. Older stars with fewer metals are ...
Physicists have created a 3D shape called the cosmohedron, which can be used to reconstruct the quantum wavefunction of the ...
Researchers studied how the universe’s structure changed over time. They found that the universe is less clumpy than expected ...
Astronomers have released a set of more than a million simulated images showcasing the cosmos as NASA's upcoming Nancy Grace ...
Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...
The project, called OpenUniverse, relied on the now-retired Theta supercomputer at the DOE’s (Department of Energy’s) Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. The supercomputer accomplished a process ...
The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...
A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...
New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead ...
Through the lens of the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes, scientists are zeroing in on the Hubble Constant, a vital ...
Astronomers have struggled with finding ultra-faint dwarf galaxies far enough from the Milky Way's influence, making these ...
A Yale-led team of astronomers has detected an intensely brightening and dimming quasar that may help explain how some ...