Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted some potential dark star candidates. NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI Scientists working ...

For years, astronomers have been on the hunt for the first generation of stars, primordial relics of the early universe. And now they may have just found them. Ari Visbal from the University of Toledo ...

A computational model of the early-to-present-day Universe predicts that some of the first stars formed in structures that challenge conventional classification. Read the paper: The emergence of ...

Scientists working with the James Webb Space Telescope discovered three unusual astronomical objects in early 2025, which may be examples of dark stars. The concept of dark stars has existed for some ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Alexey A. Petrov, University of South Carolina (THE CONVERSATION) Scientists working ...