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

Astronomers have discovered a second long-sought production site of gold, uranium and other heavy elements — and answered a ...

Dead stars may have started churning out vast amounts of gold much earlier in the universe than previously thought, a new ...

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 ...

Based on accepted cosmological models, hydrogen and helium were the only elements in the earl. These coalesced to form the ...

beta radiation composed of electrons or positrons, electromagnetic X-rays and gamma-rays, and neutron radiation. The new detector is capable of detecting all types of radiation. “The alpha and beta ...

Radiation-induced volumetric expansion (RIVE) is a concern for any concrete structures that are exposed to neutron flux and ...

NASA's data suggests that gold originates from magnetars, a type of neutron star with a strong magnetic field, shedding ...

Using the Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) onboard the International Space Station (ISS), astronomers have ...

The mystery of where the precious metal gold came from in the Universe may finally have been solved as Nasa finally has some ...

Astronomers confirmed in 2017 that neutron star mergers can create gold, platinum, and other heavy elements, based on ...

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment ...