A rare star reveals how the Universe's first stars exploded, helping explain the Milky Way’s outer halo and its unusual ...
Gold was not born on our planet Earth; it was forged in a violent ‘cosmic forge’ far beyond our solar system. This means that ...
Astronomers have for the first time seen the birth of a magnetar—a highly magnetized, spinning neutron star—and confirmed that it's the power source behind some of the brightest exploding stars in the ...
Astronomers have uncovered an ultra-rare star that could reshape our understanding of the early universe. Named PicII‑503, ...
Sixteen years ago, theoretical astrophysicists at UC Berkeley and elsewhere proposed that highly magnetized, spinning neutron stars — magnetars — were the power source behind some superluminous ...