An international team led by ICREA researcher Mark Gieles, from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of ...

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

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

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

A team of astrophysicists has unveiled how colossal stars thousands of times more massive than the Sun shaped the earliest ...

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

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

Washington, DC— Our galaxy’s most abundant type of planet could be rich in liquid water due to formative interactions between ...

Most events in the universe are not fully understood, including the relatively simple process of star formation. Stars form in dense clouds of cold gas and dust. When these clouds reach a threshold ...

In a remarkable cosmic event observed on November 2, 2025, scientists had the rare opportunity to witness a dead 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 ...