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A metal-poor star located merely 190 light-years from the Sun is 14.46+-0.80 billion years old, which implies that the star is nearly as old as the Universe! Those results emerged from a new study led by Howard Bond. Suc...

Early next week, an Indian rocket will launch into space carrying seven satellites on board. Among them will be a small but mighty asteroid-hunting telescope called NEOSSat. Built by the Canadian Space Agency, it will ma...

Like very young humans, very young stars also tend to make a big mess out of the stuff around them -- except in the case of stars it's not crayon on the walls and Legos on the floor (ouch!) but rather huge blasts of supe...