Evidence from old NASA and ESA data suggests magnetar flares may have created heavy elements in the early universe.

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 ...

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

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

The origins of heavy elements such as gold have been one of the biggest mysteries of astrophysics. A study has now provided a ...

Astronomers believe starquakes on highly magnetic neutron stars could lead to the creation of heavy elements such as gold, ...

Magnetar flares can create gold, platinum, and uranium in seconds, reshaping cosmic element formation theories.

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

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

By sifting through that vast dataset, the team found 2,889 likely superflares on 2,527 sunlike stars. That works out to ...

Dead stars may have started churning out vast amounts of gold much earlier in the universe than previously thought, a new ...