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

The spark that transfers a charge from one carbon particle to another, generating lightning and possibly life itself, is finally understood.

As todays Word of the Day demonstrates, some words do more than describe; they critique, exaggerate, and illuminate. And in ...

Discovered in the Pictor II dwarf galaxy, star PicII-503 has an extreme deficiency in iron—less than 1/40,000th of the sun. This signature makes it the clearest example of a star within a primordial ...

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Kevin Omland does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

We humans have long viewed ourselves as the pinnacle of evolution. People label other species as "primitive" or "ancient" and use terms like "higher" and "lower" animals. This anthropocentric ...

I don't take joy in saying this, but the coach needs to go. Five straight losses with the talent on this roster is bad. The playoff performances have been largely underwhelming. The repeated collapses ...

UCLA basketball has been a bona fide defensive team under head coach Mick Cronin, riding it to compete for conference championships and make deep postseason runs in March. Under Cronin's watch, the ...