Evidence from old NASA and ESA data suggests magnetar flares may have created heavy elements in the early universe.

A powerful cosmic event from 2004—a gamma-ray burst from a magnetar 30,000 light-years away—has just been revealed as a major ...

In an ejection that would have caused its rotation to slow, a magnetar is depicted losing material into space in this ...

As the anniversary of the iconic Planet Hulk arrives, Marvel is making a huge change to Bruce Banner's status quo - one ...

After a walkover survey found slightly elevated levels of gamma radiation in portions of the Albany Bulb, a former landfill ...

Screwworms are possibly the most aptly named parasites imaginable, both literally and figuratively. Screwworms—technically, ...

Brave New Soldier follows in the footsteps of three installments for Chris Evans’ Steve Rogers and four Avengers films when ...

Physicists propose that high-energy photon jets from collapsing stars may be secret factories of heavy elements like ...

Thousands of hectares of Chernobyl-affected farmland, long deemed too dangerous for cultivation in northern Ukraine can ...

You might owe that gold necklace around your neck to a moody, long-dead star from the universe’s ancient past. According to a ...

Astronomers believe starquakes on highly magnetic neutron stars could lead to the creation of heavy elements such as gold, ...

A brilliant flash from deep space once baffled scientists. But now, that mystery has been solved—and it reshapes what we know ...