Astronomers believe starquakes on highly magnetic neutron stars could lead to the creation of heavy elements such as gold, ...

A new study has found that such heavy metals may have formed through eruptions on a rare type of star called a magnetar.

Astronomers have spotted around a dozen of these weird, rare blasts. Could they be signs of a special kind of black hole?

Astronomers Catch Powerful ‘Zombie Star’ Speeding Through the Milky Way, Have No Idea Where It is From The Hubble Space ...

Astronomers have discovered that the magnetar SGR 0501+4516 is speeding through our galaxy at more than 110,000 mph. This ...

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

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

Scientists have long believed that gold and other heavy elements were created solely through neutron star collisions. However ...

Astronomers have discovered a likely explanation for a fracture in a huge cosmic "bone" in the Milky Way galaxy, using NASA's ...

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

Neutron stars are the remnants of the cores from exploded ... of the stuff in my phone or my laptop was forged in this extreme explosion (over) the course of our galaxy’s history.” ...