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A team of 48 astronomers from 14 countries, led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has discovered a population of dusty, star-forming galaxies at the far edges of the universe that formed ...

Astronomers have uncovered an extraordinarily ancient star that offers a rare glimpse into the universe’s earliest chapters.

Cloud-9, shown in magenta. The circle represents the region where researchers focused their search for stars—the peak of radio emission. NASA, ESA, VLA, Gagandeep Anand (STScI), Alejandro ...

For decades, astronomers were only able to study the universe's very first stars using theoretical models. Now, observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed what may be the ...

Astronomers have discovered that the Seven Sisters of the Pleiades star cluster have more stellar siblings than we thought — a lot more. Using NASA's exoplanet hunting spacecraft TESS (Transiting ...