Earth is quietly collecting radioactive debris from an ancient stellar explosion as our Solar System drifts through a giant ...

Scientists have just managed to reproduce a nuclear reaction that had never been observed directly before. The experiment focuses on p-nuclei, unusual proton-rich isotopes that do not fit into the ...

In recent years, whenever astronomers have gazed into the night sky, they’ve noticed something peculiar: Some of its massive stars—the true titans of the cosmos—appear to be missing. The largest of ...

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 ...