A new study has found that such heavy metals may have formed through eruptions on a rare type of star called a magnetar.

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

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

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

Astronomers have discovered a previously unknown birthplace of some of the universe's rarest elements: a giant flare ...

It’s a pretty fundamental question in terms of the origin of complex matter in the universe,” Anirudh Patel said in a NASA ...

Understanding the origin of heavy elements on the periodic table is one of the most challenging open problems in all of ...

"The creation of heavy elements such as uranium and plutonium necessitates extreme conditions," said physicist Matthew ...

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