The explosion released elements heavier than iron—like gold and platinum—through a process known as rapid neutron capture ...

Plutonium discovered at the bottom of the ocean was found to be refuse from a kilonova that exploded close to Earth 10 ...

"We live in a supernova graveyard," Brian Fields, an astronomer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, said in a ...

All the excess carbon dioxide generated by people burning fossil fuels is shrinking the upper atmosphere, exacerbating the ...

Scientists discovered deep-sea traces of ancient plutonium, evidence of a 10-million-year-old cosmic explosion. This finding could reveal Earth’s history with violent kilonovas.

Last year, headstones carved from ice by Icelandic sculptor Ottó Magnússon were placed in a windswept field by the sea to ...

which has been traced back to the "cosmic graveyard" of a massive "dead" galaxy filled with ancient stars located 2 billion light-years from Earth. FRBs are usually attributed to the supernova ...