Scientists propose that magnetars, highly magnetic neutron stars, could be the source of early heavy elements like gold.

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

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

It’s a pretty fundamental question in terms of the origin of complex matter in the universe,” Anirudh Patel said in a NASA ...

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (formerly ... delivering these CGI core elements to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at the California Institute of Technology (CalTech) in Pasadena ...

Giant flares blasted out of supermagnetized stars called "magnetars" could forge planets' worth of gold and other heavy ...

At the time of the Big Bang, the universe contained only the lightest elements: hydrogen, helium, and a dash of lithium.