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

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

New research suggests that the largest cosmic structure is even bigger and closer to Earth than we knew. It goes against ...

Researchers suggest powerful bursts from magnetars—collapsed stars with strong magnetic fields—may have contributed up to 10 ...

Observations from high-flying aircraft revealed that thunderclouds act as natural particle accelerators, emitting energetic ...

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

Astronomers have employed the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) and the Neutron Star Interior Composition ...

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

Astronomers have spotted something that appears to stretch around ten billion light years across. This so-called ...

Did you know some of the brightest sources of light in the sky come from the regions around black holes in the centers of ...

By sifting through that vast dataset, the team found 2,889 likely superflares on 2,527 sunlike stars. That works out to ...