Most of us are familiar with neon as a term for bright colors and vibrant signs, but you may not know as much about the element underlying the name, which scientists were first able to isolate ...

Some stars have the element neon to thank for their ultimate, explosive demise, according to astrophysical research. Astronomers love studying the life cycles of stars, including which stars die in ...

Primordial nucleosynthesis during the early universe generated hydrogen, helium, and minor lithium-7 before the cosmos cooled, halting further fusion. Stellar interiors synthesize elements up to iron ...

A recent study published in Astrophysical Journal Letters examines data provided by NASA’s now-retired Spitzer Space Telescope and the agency’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) involving the ...

If you were to take every element in the periodic table and order them by how abundant they are in the Universe, you'd find something a little bit surprising. The most common element is hydrogen, ...