The most distant star ever discovered may have been misclassified: Instead of being a single star, the object — nicknamed Earendel from the Old English word for "morning star" — may be a star cluster, ...

Astronomers who simulate galaxies do not always get the same result, even when they start from identical conditions. New ...

In March 2022, the Hubble Space Telescope peered through the distant cosmos and detected the light of an apparent star located 12.9 billion light-years away. Astronomers named it Earendel, meaning ...