Tag: Star formation
The first stars may not have been as uniformly massive as...
Luke Keller, Ithaca College
For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like....
Why does the Earth spin?
Silas Laycock, UMass Lowell
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If...
How the Hubble Space Telescope opened our eyes to the first...
Rodger I. Thompson, University of Arizona
The Hubble Space Telescope launched on the 24th of April, 30 years ago. It’s an impressive milestone especially as...
From galactic pile-ups, stars are born: a crash course in clusters
By Nick Seymour, Curtin University
Clusters of galaxies have back-stories worthy of a Hollywood blockbuster: their existences are marked by violence, death and birth, arising...
EXPLORING NATURE
Pregnant women face tough choices about medication use due to lack...
Almut Winterstein, University of Florida and Sonja Rasmussen, Johns Hopkins University
A panel convened in July 2025 by the...
