In the blink of an eye after the Big Bang, the universe could have birthed strange new stars and black holes.

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 ...

New simulations suggest magnetic fields hold the key to forming black holes that defy known mass limits. When powerful ...

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

Monster black holes entered the cosmic scene soon after the Universe’s birth and grew rapidly, reaching millions or even ...

“The Universe will just get colder and deader from now on,” added Douglas Scott, study author and a cosmologist at the ...

Astronomers using data from ESA's Euclid and Herschel space telescopes have confirmed that star formation has already peaked ...

Astronomers may have just uncovered the earliest stars ever observed, potentially rewriting our understanding of the universe ...

Long ago, before galaxies formed into shapes we are familiar with today and before planets formed, the earliest stars ignited ...

A handful of extremely massive stars, each heavier than 1,000 Suns, may have sculpted the chemistry of the oldest star ...

When it comes to finding baby, still-forming planets around young stars, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array ...

The universe's first galaxies were hot messes, according to a recent study. During their younger days, they were wild, ...