The careening star blasted through the galactic filament, known as "the Snake," at a zippy 1–2 million miles per hour.

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

Physicists propose that high-energy photon jets from collapsing stars may be secret factories of heavy elements like ...

"The creation of heavy elements such as uranium and plutonium necessitates extreme conditions," said physicist Matthew ...

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

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

A team of NASA researchers has uncovered a massive fracture in the Milky Way galaxy's structure, caused by a pulsar ...

Neutron stars are some of the weirdest cosmic objects, and the greatest mysteries lie deep in their hearts.

The mystery of where the precious metal gold came from in the Universe may finally have been solved as Nasa finally has some ...

A re-examination of the distribution of powerful space explosions suggests that the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall, a ...

Using the Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) onboard the International Space Station (ISS), astronomers have ...