The Times tested for lead, mercury and other heavy metals in Altadena and Pacific Palisades. From respiratory problems to ...

As icecaps around the world continue to melt, rising waters are encroaching on coastal cities around the world, putting ...

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 ...

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

Magnetars are among the rarest—and weirdest—denizens of the galactic zoo. They have powerful magnetic fields and may be the ...

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

An international research team made up of scientists from Freie Universität Berlin and the French National Center for ...