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

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 ...

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

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

A groundbreaking study led by Anirudh Patel suggests that magnetars—rare, highly magnetic neutron stars—played a key role in ...

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

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

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

Discover how gold in your jewelry may have cosmic origins, created in magnetar explosions billions of years ago, as revealed ...