Researchers suggest powerful bursts from magnetars—collapsed stars with strong magnetic fields—may have contributed up to 10 ...

Magnetar flares, colossal cosmic explosions, may be directly responsible for the creation and distribution of heavy elements across the universe, suggests a new study.

Magnetar flares, colossal cosmic explosions, may be directly responsible for the creation and distribution of heavy elements ...

"It's pretty incredible to think that some of the heavy elements all around us, like the precious metals in our phones and ...

In this week’s Science for All newsletter, Vasudevan Mukunth discusses a process called r-process nucleosynthesis in a ...

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

A new study has found that rare magnetar flares could be a key source of heavy elements like gold and uranium, helping ...

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

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 ...

In the quest to generate limitless clean energy, China has just taken a step closer. Scientists have achieved the milestone ...

A new study highlights the potential for carbon-free helium in Yellowstone’s ancient geothermal landscape. The findings could offer a clean, sustainable solution to the growing global helium shortage ...

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