At first glance, Cacio e pepe looks easy. Just three ingredients — pasta, Pecorino Romano, and black pepper — and you get a ...

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

Back in December 2004, a massive eruption from a rare type of star blasted gamma rays toward Earth. That initial flash came from a magnetar, a type of neutron star with an incredibly strong ...

Now, new research based on a signal uncovered in archival space mission data may point to a potential clue: magnetars, or highly magnetized neutron stars. Scientists believe lighter elements such ...

Using the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Very Large Array, astronomers have revealed for the first time the huge flow ...

In a new study, researchers revealed that powerful flares originating from neutron stars with a strong magnetic field, called "magnetars," may have started forging gold not long after the Big Bang ...

The only previous example of an r-process site that has been confirmed observationally, however, is in the collision between two neutron stars—as recorded by the LIGO and Virgo gravitational ...

May 1, 2025 — The European Space Agency's Gaia mission has spotted an unusual family of stars all strangely eager to leave home -- a family we couldn't have discovered without the star-surveying ...