Even if early Earth had water and oxygen, it still would have needed one essential ingredient for life—and for the modern world: heavy metals. From our smartphones to our bloodstreams, these elements ...

A magnetar known to scientists for 17 years might not have come from a supernova, like the rest of its ultra-magnetic brethren. But where did it form, then? The Hubble Space Telescope is on the case.

Researchers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered the magnetar called SGR 0501+4516 is traversing our galaxy from an unknown place of origin. Researchers say that this runaway magnetar ...