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

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

The ancient Greeks looked to use the four main elements to interpret reality and the world. Empedocles was the proponent of ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

Astronomers confirmed in 2017 that neutron star mergers can create gold, platinum, and other heavy elements, based on ...

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

This artist's concept depicts a magnetar - a type of neutron star with a strong magnetic field - losing material into space. Shown as thin green ...

MIT researchers found that different algorithms can all be grouped into a ‘periodic table’ of AI. The idea for the table was ...