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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

That’s where magnetars come in. These ultra-magnetic neutron stars can unleash giant flares that throw material from their ...

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

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 ...

Scientists at the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Astrophysics found a single giant flare from a ...

A previously unknown birthplace of some of the universe’s rarest elements including gold has been discovered. It all came ...