For centuries, gold’s celestial origins remained one of astronomy’s greatest mysteries. Now, a ground-breaking study has ...

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

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

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

Physicists propose that high-energy photon jets from collapsing stars may be secret factories of heavy elements like ...

For the first time, astronomers have probed the physical environment of repeating X-ray outbursts near monster black holes ...

Astronomers believe starquakes on highly magnetic neutron stars could lead to the creation of heavy elements such as gold, ...

Delve into the enigmatic realm of neutron stars—stellar remnants that defy our conventional understanding. Once blazing stars, now they stand as super-heavy celestial entities with masses that boggle ...

Understanding the origin of heavy elements on the periodic table is one of the most challenging open problems in all of ...