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

It’s a pretty fundamental question in terms of the origin of complex matter in the universe,” Anirudh Patel said in a NASA ...

This artist's concept depicts a magnetar - a type of neutron star with a strong magnetic field - losing material into space. Shown as thin green ...

In a star’s core, fusion takes terrific temperature and pressure that is provided by the crushing gravity of the star’s ...

How do you distinguish a galaxy from a mere cluster of stars? That’s easy, right? A galaxy is a large collection of millions ...

Now, researchers led by Los Alamos National Laboratory have proposed a bold new idea: that stars collapsing into black holes ...

Scientists have long believed that gold and other heavy elements were created solely through neutron star collisions. However ...

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 ...

Prior to the current finding, all black holes that scientists have ever identified have been spotted with a companion star.

Test of quantum electrodynamics circumvents insufficient knowledge of nuclear structure Many atomic nuclei have a magnetic ...