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 ...

In an ejection that would have caused its rotation to slow, a magnetar is depicted losing material into space in this ...

A recent drone attack on Chernobyl is a reminder of the nuclear threat remaining there. One wrong move could trigger a catastrophe.

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