How heavy can an element be? An international team of researchers has found that ancient stars were capable of producing elements with atomic masses greater than 260, heavier than any element on the ...

The Big Bang explosion at the start of the Universe was responsible for the production of the light elements hydrogen and helium, along with some fraction of lithium. All of the other elements in ...

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 125, No. 924 (February 2013), pp. 143-153 (11 pages) ABSTRACT.This work describes a study of elemental abundances for 30 metal-poor stars ...

Researchers has detected the element tellurium for the first time in three ancient stars. Tellurium is rare on Earth. Nearly 13.7 billion years ago, the universe was made of only hydrogen, helium and ...

When it comes to the elements in the periodic table found throughout the Universe, it's only the first two that originated from the Big Bang: hydrogen and helium. Everything else was formed from stars ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Nearly 70 years ago, astronomer Paul Merrill was ...