Magnetars: mega-magnetic ... The flare detected by INTEGRAL is the first firm confirmation of a magnetar flare outside of the Milky Way. M82 is a bright galaxy where star formation takes place.

Only five days after the big eruption, Integral detected highly energetic X-rays ... One is that it is the tiny core left behind after a highly magnetic star has died. But such magnetic stars ...

Dozens of mini earthquakes have struck near a 11,000-foot-tall volcano in Alaska that experts fear is 'moving closer to an eruption.' The Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) has detected 30 ...

Dozens of mini earthquakes have struck near a 11,000-foot-tall volcano in Alaska that experts fear is 'moving closer to an eruption.' The Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) has detected 55 ...

The observatory and Hawaii’s emergency management agency said late Monday that the eruption, which began in the morning, had paused about 12 hours later, but it warned that “activity in the ...

An international team, including researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), realised that the burst must have been an extra-galactic flare from a magnetar, a young neutron star with an ...

Artist's impression of a magnetar. Magnetars are the cosmic objects with the strongest magnetic fields ever measured in the Universe.