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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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