For centuries, gold’s celestial origins remained one of astronomy’s greatest mysteries. Now, a ground-breaking study has ...

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

Though they don't orbit around our sun, sub-Neptunes are the most common type of exoplanet, or planet outside our solar ...

A cosmic "bone" at the heart of the Milky Way appears to be fractured. Looking at the break, astronomers found a radio source.

Physicists at the MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms have pulled off a feat once confined to the blackboards of theorists ...

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

Evidence from old NASA and ESA data suggests magnetar flares may have created heavy elements in the early universe.

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

A burst of powerful radiation observed in space has challenged traditional theories about the formation of some of the heavy ...