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

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

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 ...

Black holes fuel the universe’s brightest light sources AGN jets emit powerful gamma rays Fermi finds thousands of active ...

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

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.

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

Magnetars are among the rarest—and weirdest—denizens of the galactic zoo. They have powerful magnetic fields and may be the ...

The mystery of where the precious metal gold came from in the Universe may finally have been solved as Nasa finally has some ...

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, have shown that they have a functional ...