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 ...

Magnetars are among the rarest—and weirdest—denizens of the galactic zoo. They have powerful magnetic fields and may be the ...

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 ...

Astronomers have used the Hubble and Gaia telescopes to study the surroundings of SGR 0501+4516, a type of neutron star known as a magnetar. The investigation reveals that we still have no clear ...

A magnetar erupted with so much energy that it affected Earth’s ionosphere, even though it was located 30,000 light-years away. (You can imagine a different doomsday scenario for Earth if a ...

In 2004, a magnetar 30,000 light-years away erupted so violently that it altered Earth’s ionosphere—despite being on the far side of the galaxy. Patel and his team predicted what kinds of ...

These conditions create a favorable environment for forming heavy elements. The December 2004 burst from the magnetar SGR 1806-20 released energy equivalent to hundreds of thousands of years of ...

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

Artist's illustration of a magnetar ejecting material into space. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) Going forward, the researchers note how these findings could be enhanced using NASA’s Compton Spectrometer ...

A rogue magnetar, named SGR 0501+4516, is crossing our galaxy without a clear trace of its birth, according to a study published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. This object, initially ...

Two and a half years ago I gave up my iPhone. I never regretted it once. I wrote about my new device, the Light Phone II, for Slate. My Light Phone II was part of a loose family of alternative ...