Magnetar flares produce gold, platinum, and other heavy elements in our galaxy, says new research on a strange cosmic flash ...

Magnetar flares can create gold, platinum, and uranium in seconds, reshaping cosmic element formation theories.

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 previously unknown process by which some of the universe’s rarest and most valuable elements, ...

At the time of the Big Bang, the universe contained only the lightest elements: hydrogen, helium, and a dash of lithium.

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

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

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

Astronomers now have a much better understanding of the cosmic conditions that create gold, platinum, and other heavy ...

Discover how gold in your jewelry may have cosmic origins, created in magnetar explosions billions of years ago, as revealed ...

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 ...

A new method uses gold to assemble multi-element nanoparticles under mild conditions, offering improvements in catalytic ...