Researchers in the US and Japan are racing to build new particle detectors that they hope will explain why the Universe ...

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

Astronomers believe starquakes on highly magnetic neutron stars could lead to the creation of heavy elements such as gold, ...

Elliptical galaxies are some of the oldest types of galaxies in the universe. They formed relatively quickly after the Big ...

We have long taken it for granted that gravity is one of the basic forces of nature – one of the invisible threads that keeps ...

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

NASA's data suggests that gold originates from magnetars, a type of neutron star with a strong magnetic field, shedding ...

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

Scientists believe lighter elements such as hydrogen and helium, and even a small amount of lithium, likely existed early on after the big bang created the universe 13.8 billion years ago.