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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

A new study reveals that violent magnetar flares can forge gold and platinum in space, offering rare insight into the cosmic ...

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

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