Scientists have puzzled over the origin of elements heavier than iron since the 1950s. Recently, LSU astrophysicist Eric ...

Flares from a supermagnetized star may have generated as much as 10 percent of our galaxy’s heavy 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 ...

This new paper pushes the boundaries of actinide chemistry even further. The superatom structure is based around a trithorium ...

A new study has found that rare magnetar flares could be a key source of heavy elements like gold and uranium, helping ...

Rare earth elements are critical to many industries—used in electric motors, medical imaging and diagnostics, oil and gas ...

Based on accepted cosmological models, hydrogen and helium were the only elements in the earl. These coalesced to form the ...

For the first time, astronomers have probed the physical environment of repeating X-ray outbursts near monster black holes ...

Magnetar flares, colossal cosmic explosions, may be directly responsible for the creation and distribution of heavy elements across the universe, suggests a new study.