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 ...

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 ...

Giant flares blasted out of supermagnetized stars called "magnetars" could forge planets' worth of gold and other heavy ...

Astronomers have discovered a previously unknown process by which some of the universe’s rarest and most valuable elements, ...

Astronomers confirmed in 2017 that neutron star mergers can create gold, platinum, and other heavy elements, based on ...

Astronomers have discovered a second long-sought production site of gold, uranium and other heavy elements — and answered a ...

"We are in an era where machines can discover new super-human solutions in science, and the task of humans is to understand what the machine has done." ...

A black hole, seven times the mass of the Sun and located nearly 5,000 light-years away, has been confirmed as the first to ...

Magnetic fields influence post-merger frequencies Simulations show strong suppression of oscillations Study uses ...

Observations from high-flying aircraft revealed that thunderclouds act as natural particle accelerators, emitting energetic ...