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We don't have to worry about the death of the sun any time soon, but when it does happen, will the Earth be able to survive?

Nuclear pulse propulsion is a technology that would work. It was being developed in the 1960s but it was stopped because of ...

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Astronomers have figured out where a stream of long radio bursts is coming from, and its origin is unprecedented. Rather than ...

Earth’s core could contain helium from the early solar system. The noble gas tucks into gaps in iron crystals under high pressure and temperature.

The discovery that inert helium can form bonds with iron may reshape our understanding of Earth’s history. Researchers from ...

These results suggest that similar reactions between helium and iron may have occurred within Earth’s core shortly after its formation, trapping much of the primordial helium-3 in the material that ...

A top House Democrat exploded in anger during a committee hearing on Wednesday, outraged over the absence of Elon Musk, the ...

The six-mile-wide asteroid punched a one-way ticket toward extinction for all non-avian dinosaurs. Some 66 million years ...

Scientists have uncovered surprising evidence that helium, a gas long thought to be chemically inert, may actually bond with ...