A new study looking at decades-old NASA and European Space Agency (ESA) data may have gone some way to explaining an enduring ...

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 sudden blast of gamma rays that swept past Earth in December 2004 is helping solve one of astrophysics’ biggest mysteries: ...

Neutron stars are some of the weirdest cosmic objects, and the greatest mysteries lie deep in their hearts. Neutron stars are ...

Scientists have long been trying to determine how elements heavier than iron, including gold and platinum, were first created ...

Neutron star mergers are collisions between neutron stars, the collapsed cores of what were once massive supergiant stars.

The universe began with mostly hydrogen, helium, and tiny amounts of lithium. Heavier elements came later, forged in stars ...

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

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

The results of a 2024 study allowed the researchers to narrow their search to the stars as it found that magnetar giant ...

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

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