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

A new study looking at decades-old NASA and European Space Agency (ESA) data may have gone some way to explaining an enduring ...

Magnetar flares produce gold, platinum, and other heavy elements in our galaxy, says new research on a strange cosmic flash ...

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

Based on accepted cosmological models, hydrogen and helium were the only elements in the earl. These coalesced to form the ...

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

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

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

That’s where magnetars come in. These ultra-magnetic neutron stars can unleash giant flares that throw material from their ...

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

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