The Universe is home to celestial bodies of staggering dimensions. VY Canis Majoris is a striking example. This star, located ...

There are several candidates for the biggest star in the universe. One of them, VY Canis Majoris, is over 1,500 times the ...

And although it has the highest radius of all the stars, it is not actually the most massive, as UY Scuti is about 30 times the weight of our sun, a stark reminder that you can't judge a star entirely ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Thousands of newborn stars sparkle and dazzle in the latest snapshot by NASA’s Webb Space ...

Chemistry in the first 50 million to 100 million years after the Big Bang may have been more active than we expected.

An impossibly bright galaxy is forcing scientists to rewrite the rules of the Big Bang’s aftermath. Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: Scientists have found a remarkably small yet bright object ...

Some stars in the universe grow to 300 times larger our own sun. But how do they get so big, and how do they sustain their mass?