At a distance of160,000 light-years, an aging red supergiant star in a neighboring galaxy has become the subject of an ...

Imagine a universe that barely exists—just fractions of a second old, too young to look anything like the cosmos we know ...

A new study suggests that during a potential phase of primordial matter domination, particle interactions may have led to the formation of the universe’s first compact cosmic objects. Less than a ...

Before atomic elements came together, less than a second after the Big Bang, if particles condensed into halos of matter, ...

This new image from JWST also reveals for the first time the full extent of the nebula's lobes, or the spider's "legs", seen ...

UBC astronomers release a sneak peak of the most accurate measurements yet of key aspects of the Universe, including star ...

A new model sheds light on the long-standing chemical mysteries found in globular clusters, the ancient archives of the universe. An international collaboration led by ICREA researcher Mark Gieles, fr ...

This Collection features original research on the mechanisms driving star formation, the lifecycle of various stellar types, and the complex interactions between stars and their environments. The ...

How can timing influence planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated the ...