Here’s a popular high school chemistry fact: Helium atoms don’t interact with other atoms to create compounds. Well, that fact might need some reevaluating. An international team of scientists think ...

Type Ia supernovae are critical tools in astronomy, since they all appear to explode with the same intensity, allowing us to use their brightness as a measure of distance. The distance measures ...

An unusual supernova rediscovered in seven-year-old data may be the first example of a new type of exploding star, possibly from a binary star system where helium flows from one white dwarf onto ...

Clusters of up to 74 helium atoms about a single ion have been produced. Helium atoms can form clusters about a central single ion. These clusters have shell-like structures, and they are especially ...

Stars often die with a final burst of beauty. For the first time, astronomers have captured visual proof that a star can explode not once, but twice before fading forever. Using the European Southern ...

(Nanowerk News) An international team of researchers has found evidence a supernova explosion that was first triggered by a helium detonation, reports a new study in Nature ("A hybrid type la ...

Astronomers say they’ve found a unique new kind of star in the universe, one born from a merger between two white dwarves. The resulting star, which consists of a core of helium surrounded by an outer ...

Exploding stars may seem like an unlikely yardstick for measuring the vast distances of space, but astronomers have been mapping the universe for decades using these stellar eruptions, called ...

Winds are stronger and steadier at higher altitudes, that’s why the Buoyant Air Turbine (BAT) from Altaeros is pushing to be the highest wind turbine in history. Already tested to 500 feet off the ...