A dim red giant just out of reach of the Milky Way is providing astronomers with an incredibly rare glimpse into the earliest days of our universe, at a time when it was not possible for a telescope ...

After years of successful concealment, the most primitive stars outside our Milky Way galaxy have finally been unmasked. New observations using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have been used to solve an ...

Astronomers have discovered a relic from the early universe – a star that may have been among the second generation of stars to form after the Big Bang. Located in the dwarf galaxy Sculptor some ...

Astronomers have discovered one of the most chemically primitive stars at the edge of our Milky Way galaxy. The star, called PicII-503, seems to be a member of the universe’s second generation of ...

The light reaching JWST from LAP1-B began its trip about 13 billion years ago. By the time it arrived, it carried an unusually sparse chemical record. This points to a galaxy barely touched by earlier ...

"We have, in effect, found a flaw in the forensic methods used until now," says Else Starkenburg, lead author of the paper reporting the study. "Our improved approach allows us to uncover the ...