A star’s colossal flare has revealed an unexpected origin for some of the universe’s heaviest elements, including gold and ...

Astronomers now have a much better understanding of the cosmic conditions that create gold, platinum, and other heavy ...

A flash of high-energy radiation that rippled through space in December 2004 may have quietly rewritten part of the story for ...

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 ...

That’s where magnetars come in. These ultra-magnetic neutron stars can unleash giant flares that throw material from their ...

Astronomers have discovered a second long-sought production site of gold, uranium and other heavy elements — and answered a ...

By incorporating a diverse set of elements, the researchers successfully reduced the surface energy of platinum-based nano-octahedra, enabling the formation of stable structures with edge lengths ...