A tiny object half a universe away, a scar in a stream of stars circling the Milky Way, and an unusual star cluster in a nearby satellite galaxy may not seem related at first glance. Yet a new study ...

Astronomers have used the ages of more than 155,000 stars in the Milky Way to independently estimate the age of the universe, ...

A team of astronomers may have caught the faintest trace of the universe’s very first stars, objects that theorists have predicted for decades but no one has ever directly observed. Using the James ...

Scientists at the University of Missouri have identified a small group of unusual objects in the early universe. Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), Haojing Yan and his team at Mizzou's ...

Scientists have identified new clues that could help astronomers spot one of the most famous hypothetical alien ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronomers may have found evidence that some of the mysterious "little red dots" discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope ...

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An ancient immigrant: an artist's conception (not to scale) of the red giant SDSS J0915-7334, which was born near the Large Magellanic Cloud and has now journeyed to reside in the Milky Way. Pasadena, ...