Not only does the star have less metal content than our Sun, but it is also the most iron-poor known star.

A record-setting pristine star provides a window into the dawn of stars and galaxies in the universe. This breakthrough was ...

Scientists can't be everywhere all at once, as much as they'd like to. Many of the problems citizen science helps solve are concerned with spreading ...

Scientists at Raman Research Institute have decoded mysterious repeating X-ray flares from deep space, suggesting the source ...

A blazing supermassive black hole can influence far more than its own galaxy. Scientists found that quasars emit radiation strong enough to shut down star formation in nearby galaxies millions of ...

When one celestial object passes in front of another, it can cast a shadow that travels across space – and sometimes across Earth. These moments of alignment, known as eclipses, occultations, and ...

Researchers using custom fabricated nanostructures that 'trap' light have created a new exotic state of matter with light at ...

An international team led by a researcher at the Chiba Institute of Technology has discovered an extremely rare phenomenon: a ...

Like tiny photobombers, cosmic anomalies resembling small, bright red points show up in almost every snapshot taken by the most powerful space telescope ever made.

When NASA crashed a spacecraft into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos in 2022, it altered both Dimorphos' orbit around its parent asteroid, Didymos, and the two objects' orbit around the sun, according ...

Out in the Kuiper Belt, the massive doughnut of debris beyond Neptune, about one in 10 kilometer-scale objects have surprised scientists with their unexpected shape. Rather than resembling a ball, ...