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

Flares from a supermagnetized star may have generated as much as 10 percent of our galaxy’s heavy elements.

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

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

An international research team has successfully produced hydrogen-6 (⁶H), one of the most neutron-rich isotopes known, for ...

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 the quest to generate limitless clean energy, China has just taken a step closer. Scientists have achieved the milestone ...

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

Physicists propose that high-energy photon jets from collapsing stars may be secret factories of heavy elements like plutonium, challenging traditional theories and possibly explaining strange cosmic ...

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