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 ...

A faint, ancient star sitting inside one of the smallest known galaxies has handed astronomers a direct chemical record of the universe’s earliest stellar explosions. Designated PicII-503, the star ...