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

These are almost one-quarter of the periodic table and are mainly ... 2026 The remaining 17 are trace elements needed in very small quantities. For example, iron is necessary for producing ...

Understanding the origin of heavy elements on the periodic table is one of the most challenging ... Relatedly, scientists have observed iron and plutonium in deep-sea sediment.

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

Now, researchers led by Los Alamos National Laboratory have proposed a bold new idea: that stars collapsing into black holes ...

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

A surprising scientific discovery in the remnants of Tycho Brahe’s workshop has revealed the presence of tungsten, an element ...

Scientists have puzzled over the origin of elements heavier than iron since the 1950s. Recently, LSU astrophysicist Eric ...

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

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 ...

Sculptor Sir Antony Gormley and poet laureate Simon Armitage have worked together on a new public artwork in Oxford. The ...

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