What was once the leading explanation for dark matter may have simply been underestimating the mass of the particles that ...

Nowadays, the dark of night is interspersed with the light of stars. But before the stars were born, did light shine at the beginning of the universe? The short answer is "no." But the long answer ...

JWST observations suggest Population III stars may have formed 13 billion years ago, helping trace early galaxies.

On what might have been the proudest day of Jack Burns’s long career in astronomy, he was sitting on a beach. Orbital dynamics and launch schedules wait for no one, and Burns couldn’t move his ...

The James Webb Space Telescope may have discovered Population III stars, the universe's first generation of stars. They may tell us more about how galaxies form.

The new study led by Prof Tomonori Totani of the University of Tokyo analysed Fermi telescope observations of the Milky Way's ...