The precursors of heavy elements might arise in the plasma underbellies of swollen stars or in smoldering stellar corpses. They definitely exist in East Lansing, Michigan.

An international team of researchers, led by scientists from GSI/FAIR in Darmstadt, Germany, has studied r-process ...

Gravity can exist without mass.” It’s a statement that upends a century of astrophysical dogma and, for some, sounds as plausible as finding a unicorn in a particle accelerator. But in a series of ...