Flares from a supermagnetized star may have generated as much as 10 percent of our galaxy’s heavy elements.

Using the Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) onboard the International Space Station (ISS), astronomers have ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

PSR J0311+1402 flashes every 41 seconds — quite slow for a pulsar. It could help bridge the gap between fast- and ...

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 ...

Artificial intelligence could offer a powerful pathway to supercharge our ability to "hear" the universe, according to new ...