One of the brightest explosions in our galaxy may have produced more heavy elements than expected. The gamma-ray burst from a ...

In an ejection that would have caused its rotation to slow, a magnetar is depicted losing material into space in this ...

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 ...

The Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) has embarked on an innovative project to develop a small nuclear battery that converts ...

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

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

"It's pretty incredible to think that some of the heavy elements all around us, like the precious metals in our phones and ...

Researchers discover new process for gold production in universe, challenging previous beliefs about element origins and ...

CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has momentarily transformed lead into gold, the long-sought-after goal of medieval ...

Geologists have found that an ancient meteorite hit Scotland 200 million years later than previously thought, which has massive implications for the geological history of the region and some of the U.

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

A report about the decay and half-life of different radioactive elements. It is impossible to predict when any one atom will decay but by looking at a number of atoms an average rate of decay can ...