The night sky may look calm, but behind the glowing points of light lies a violent and complex process of creation. Stars, ...

Not all stars are created equally. Astronomers believe that the first stars to form after the Big Bang were mostly made of only hydrogen and helium with trace amounts of lithium, as the heavier ...

Scientists have released a new study on the arXiv preprint server that catalogs the universe by mapping huge clusters of ...

A star found in the Large Magellanic Cloud is remarkably unpolluted by heavier elements, suggesting it is descended from the ...