J0715-7334 is built different, and appears to be a stranger in our galaxy. Could it have been born from the long-elusive ...

Not only does the star have less metal content than our Sun, but it is also the most iron-poor known star.

Research findings are available online in the journal Nature Astronomy. The original story “ Pristine star reveals the dawn ...

A group of scientists, including a class of undergraduate students at the University of Chicago, has discovered the most ...

An unusual team of astronomers used Sloan Digital Sky Survey-V (SDSS-V) data and observations on the Magellan telescopes at ...

Found in an ultrafaint dwarf galaxy, the ancient star’s unusual chemistry indicates it formed from gas enriched by a single ...

A group of undergraduate students stumbled into a cosmic time capsule—one of the oldest stars ever discovered—while combing ...

A galaxy spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope, known as Hebe, that existed just 400 million years after the big bang ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This artist’s concept shows the relative sizes of various stars, from the smallest “red dwarfs” at about a tenth of a solar mass, ...

In a tiny, faint dwarf galaxy 150,000 light-years away, astronomers have found a star containing just 1/40,000th of the iron ...

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