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

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

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 ...

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

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

The universe began with mostly hydrogen, helium, and tiny amounts of lithium. Heavier elements came later, forged in stars ...

Wiessinger While hydrogen, helium and a small amount of lithium were formed as a result of the Big Bang, almost all of the rest of the periodic table of elements owe their existence to being ...

An alternative periodic table of elements focusing on highly charged ions reveals new science that could support the quest ...

Having a periodic table of algorithms will make it easier to figure out which ones to use together depending on the desired properties. In high school chemistry, we all learned that the elements ...

Imagine the immediate and widespread consequences if the element helium suddenly disappeared for five seconds.