In a study published in The Astrophysical Journal, scientists have proposed the features of rapid neutron capture process (r-process) nucleosynthesis in a novel scenario, common envelope jet ...

The r-process, or rapid neutron-capture process, as a research area focuses on understanding the nucleosynthesis of roughly half of the elements heavier than iron through environments with extremely ...

For the first time, astronomers have definitively ID’d a specific heavy element forged by a neutron star merger. Theories of physics have long predicted that about half of the universe’s heavy ...