All around us are elements forged in stars, from the nickel and copper in coins to the gold and silver in jewelry. Scientists ...

All around us are elements forged in stars, from the nickel and copper in coins to the gold and silver in jewelry. Scientists ...

The first generation of stars transformed the universe. Inside their cores, simple hydrogen and helium fused into a rainbow of elements. When these stars died, they exploded and sent these new ...

Gold holds incredible value in the markets of our world. But have you ever stopped to wonder where it comes from?

Scientists working with the James Webb Space Telescope discovered three unusual astronomical objects in early 2025, which may ...

How heavy can an element be? An international team of researchers has found that ancient stars were capable of producing elements with atomic masses greater than 260, heavier than any element on the ...

For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like. These stars formed new chemical elements, which enriched the universe and allowed the next generations of ...

During the 1240s, Richard Fishacre, a Dominican friar at Oxford University, used his knowledge of light and color to show ...

Besides being a point of light, a star is a luminous, spherical mass of plasma, enough to hold itself together under its own gravity. On its own, though, gravitational rounding isn't enough. What ...

Long ago, before galaxies formed into shapes we are familiar with today and before planets formed, the earliest stars ignited the young cosmic clouds. If you stood inside one of those ancient ...