A team of nuclear physicists has pulled off something that, until recently, existed only in theoretical models and the violent surfaces of collapsed stars: they recreated a thermonuclear reaction ...

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 ...

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 ...