It's a new window into the first star explosions.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a few billion years, the Milky Way and Andromeda, the nearest spiral galaxy, might collide. Future observers could be treated ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mysterious blasts of radio waves from across the universe called fast radio bursts help astronomers catalog matter. ESO/M.

Astronomers have detected ordered magnetic fields in galaxies so young that conventional models struggle to explain how those ...

For decades, scientists have tried to measure how fast the universe is expanding. This expansion rate is known as the Hubble constant, and it plays a central role in understanding the history and ...

A rare star reveals how the Universe's first stars exploded, helping explain the Milky Way’s outer halo and its unusual chemistry.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Whether the universe will “end” at all is not certain, but all evidence suggests it ...

Astronomers have uncovered a hidden cosmic web of galaxies and gas by mapping hydrogen light from the early universe.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Chris Impey, University of Arizona (THE CONVERSATION) If you look across space with a ...