Magnetars, which have been around since before the solar system was created, could have been an early source of precious ...

But the distribution of gold, which is heavier than iron, throughout the universe has posed a mystery to astrophysicists. ...

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 ...

Gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful kinds of explosions known in the cosmos, may help provide a piece of the puzzle when it comes to one of the most challenging open problems in all of physics — how ...

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 reveals that violent magnetar flares can forge gold and platinum in space, offering rare insight into the cosmic ...

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

Scientists in Germany have crafted “skyrmion bags” of light—complex vortex-like structures—on the surface of gold by cleverly ...

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