A new study from researchers at Qinghai University and the Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine found that a ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, have shown that they have a functional ...

Combining 2 originally unrelated bills ‘strains language beyond reason,’ said a critic of the process who nevertheless voted ...