A study gives clues to cosmic origin of gold and heavy elements, and they were created earlier than we thought.

According to a study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, it is explosions of highly magnetized neutron stars, or ...

One way that this is thought to occur is the rapid neutron-capture process (r-process), whereby lighter nuclei created in stars capture neutrons in rapid succession. However, exactly where the ...

The binding energy per nucleon of the fused heavier nuclei is more than the binding energy per nucleon of the lighter nuclei. This means that the final system is more tightly bound than the ...