Researchers have discovered the most metal-poor, chemically primitive star ever found. Composed primarily of hydrogen and helium and containing less than 0.005% of the metals in the Sun, the chemical ...

J0715-7334 is built different, and appears to be a stranger in our galaxy. Could it have been born from the long-elusive ...

The newly identified star carries almost no heavy elements, making it a rare surviving relic from the universe’s earliest chapters.

In Dante's "Divine Comedy," Hell is described as an "inferno" with nine concentric circles, the entrance of which has a sign ...

Lots of people count on helium. From MRI machines and semiconductor manufacturing to pressurizing rockets and detecting leaks ...

The journey around the moon of three Americans and one Canadian is going into its sixth day, but it’s not too late to get ...

Now, the crew of Artemis II are on NASA's first crewed mission to the moon since 1972 as the US goes head-to-head with China ...

A group of undergraduate students stumbled into a cosmic time capsule—one of the oldest stars ever discovered—while combing ...

The blockade in the Strait of Hormuz is affecting not only oil, but the global helium supply. The blockade in the Strait of Hormuz is not just blocking oil shipments. NPR's Lilly Quiroz reports it's ...

A class of undergraduate students at University of Chicago has used data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to discover ...

NASA Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman faced the most earthly possible conflict while in outer space: his Outlook wasn't ...