Ancient stars located surprisingly near to our sun formed less than a billion years ... of the universe — pushing back our galaxy's star formation timeline in a huge way. "These ancient stars ...

New experiments on thallium decay have helped determine the Sun formed over 10–20 million years, improving stellar nucleosynthesis models. Have you ever wondered how long it took our Sun to form in ...

Researchers interrogated the 'sounds' of a cluster of stars within the Milky Way, uncovering a new technique for astrophysicists to probe the universe and learn more about its evolution.