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 ...

Galaxies speckle the heavens like stars in a stunning new photo of the deep and distant universe.

She may be comedy’s brightest young star, but for Hacks breakout Hannah Einbinder, making her way to the top of the entertainment industry has been serious business. Mostly.

A groundbreaking study led by Anirudh Patel suggests that magnetars—rare, highly magnetic neutron stars—played a key role in ...

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 ...

A new study reveals that violent magnetar flares can forge gold and platinum in space, offering rare insight into the cosmic ...

Scientists propose that magnetars, highly magnetic neutron stars, could be the source of early heavy elements like gold.

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

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

An enormous glowing cloud that contains approximately 3,400 solar masses worth of gas has been discovered near the solar ...

Scientists at the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Astrophysics found a single giant flare from a ...