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 ...