Galaxy clusters are the most massive objects in the universe held together by gravity, containing up to several thousand ...

Astronomers have spotted the longest gamma-ray burst ever seen, a cosmic explosion that lasted seven hours — and they ...

NASA has visualized the cataclysm, which is thought to have caused a mysterious eruption of gamma rays captured by telescopes ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a team of international researchers have discovered chemical fingerprints of gigantic ...

A Truro teenager is dreaming of the Olympics - and has just won four silver medals and a fourth place in the European Biathle ...

The star of People Just Do Nothing looks to his past and future, from working in Currys to receiving a Bafta, losing weight and wanting to start a family ...

Astronomers studying a distant galaxy using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have found the best candidates yet for the universe’s first stars. These so-called Population III stars arose shortly ...

A spoonful of this star's matter can weigh a billion tons. By developing a new theoretical relation describing just how compact neutron stars — which are the remnants of massive stars that have gone ...

Astrophysicists may have spotted evidence for “dark stars,” an unusual type of star that could possibly have existed in the earliest days of the universe, in data from the James Webb Space Telescope.

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope hint that the universe’s first stars might not have been ordinary fusion-powered suns, but enormous “supermassive dark stars” powered by dark ...

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