Particle-accelerator study focuses on the r-process thought to be responsible for forming elements heavier than iron ...

Our sun, like all stars, is made mostly of hydrogen and helium. They are by far the most abundant elements, formed in the ...

Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser Astronomers are gobsmacked by an abundance of oxygen in JADES-GS-z14-0, the earliest (and most distant) known galaxy in the universe. Though elements heavier than ...

Galaxies from the early Universe are more like our own Milky Way than previously thought, flipping the entire narrative of how scientists think about structure formation in the Universe, according to ...

A giant, gaping hole that opened up in the Sun's atmosphere has been identified as the source of a surprising abundance of a ...

When the universe was 2% of its current age, scientists think it was filled predominantly with hydrogen, the lightest element in the ... be measured based on the abundance of metals it holds.

This Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR) is the conclusive evidence for the Big Bang theory. The 'temperature' of deep space has been measured as around 3K, not absolute zero, due to the ...