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

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 ...

For centuries, gold’s celestial origins remained one of astronomy’s greatest mysteries. Now, a ground-breaking study has ...

You might owe that gold necklace around your neck to a moody, long-dead star from the universe’s ancient past. According to a ...

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

Researchers discover new process for gold production in universe, challenging previous beliefs about element origins and ...

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

In this week’s Science for All newsletter, Vasudevan Mukunth discusses a process called r-process nucleosynthesis in a ...

In the search for conditions suitable for these elements via "nucleosynthesis," a Los Alamos National Laboratory-led team is going where no researchers have gone before: the gamma-ray burst jet ...

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