Researchers from Penn's Department of Physics and Astronomy have developed a new method for better understanding the relationship between a star's chemical composition and planet formation. The study ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Not only is J0524-0336 rich in lithium, but it also has a corresponding lack of heavy elements. Astronomers discovered J0524-0336 ...

The Neutron-star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), which NASA recently selected as its next Explorer Mission of Opportunity, will gather scientific data revealing the physics of the densest ...

Astronomers at Johns Hopkins University have found what could be one of the universe's oldest stars, a body almost entirely made of materials spewed from the Big Bang. The discovery of this ...