A dim star orbiting the Milky Way is drawing attention for its almost pristine composition. Named PicII-503, it contains barely any heavy elements, making it one of the most extreme examples of an ...

Gold and other heavy elements are born in some of the universe’s most violent events—but scientists still struggle to understand the nuclear steps that create them. Now, nuclear physicists have ...

Still in its original galaxy, a rare holdout from the second generation of stars sheds new light on the origins of the elements—and how massive supernovae reshaped the cosmos ...

GRB 230906A, a short gamma-ray burst first detected in 2023, points to a faint galaxy embedded within a long stream of torn ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has forced planetary scientists to rethink what lies at the center of Jupiter. Instead of the dense, compact ball of rock and ice that textbooks long assumed, new interior ...

Discovered in the Pictor II dwarf galaxy, star PicII-503 has an extreme deficiency in iron—less than 1/40,000th of the sun. This signature makes it the clearest example of a star within a primordial ...

Astronomers have tracked a powerful blast of radiation back to its source, finding a neutron star collision within colliding galaxies.

Featuring tactile combat, quiet wonder, and immersive elements that pay homage to the best modern open-world games, Crimson ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered one of the most primitive stars in terms of chemical composition — a second-generation object formed immediately after the first stars of the ...

A new experiment using rare-isotope beams has provided new insight into the origin of proton-rich isotopes known as p-nuclei.

Every Thursday, Jezebel will yank you from this flaming dumpster planet and catapult you into the cosmos, delivering the most awe-inspiring and jaw-dropping astronomy news taking place right beyond ...

The death of a star is usually thought to be a violent and hostile ...