In an ejection that would have caused its rotation to slow, a magnetar is depicted losing material into space in this ...

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 ...

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

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

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

Spontaneously means that the process of radioactive decay can not be speeded up or ... alpha\). 4. A new element is formed as the nucleus now has less protons and neutrons. The atomic number ...

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

For the first time since the 1986 disaster, some lands around Chornobyl have been recognized as safe for agriculture. A new ...