How do some neutron stars become the strongest magnets in the Universe? A German-British team of astrophysicists has found a possible answer to the question of how these so-called magnetars form. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Magnetars are among the most bizarre and mysterious objects in the universe, packing in trillions of times more magnetic pull than ...

Since their discovery in 2007, fast radio bursts—extremely energetic pulses of radio-frequency light—have lit up the sky repeatedly, leading astronomers on a chase to uncover their origins. Currently, ...