Rare cosmic explosions have earned an international award for an astrophysics collaboration led by an Oxford professor.

ENGRAVE, led by Oxford professor Stephen Smartt, wins top European research award for revealing how gold, platinum and heavy ...

UT researchers have made rare measurements of exotic nuclear decay that reshape how scientists think heavy elements form in extreme cosmic events. You can’t have gold without the decay of an atomic ...

For the first time, scientists have made a clear X-ray detection of chlorine and potassium in the wreckage of a star using ...

Overall, it has been quite a ride for the company founded nearly two decades ago in New Zealand by Peter Beck. A new book ...

A research team from the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has directly measured the masses of two highly unstable atomic nuclei, phosphorus-26 and sulfur-27.

ENGRAVE, led by Oxford professor Stephen Smartt, wins top European research award for revealing how gold, platinum and heavy elements form in ...

The Cassiopeia A supernova remnant reveals that massive exploding stars can forge far more of life's essential ingredients ...

The Isotope Separator On-Line facility (ISOLDE) directs a proton beam from the Proton Synchrotron Booster (PSB) onto ...

Theia, the world that helped form the Moon, came from the Solar System. Chemical clues in Earth and Moon rocks reveal this close origin.

If you look across space with a telescope, you’ll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, ...

Two papers challenged the existence of theorized particles called sterile neutrinos that might account for mysteries like the ...