This means that helium has been continuously generated ever since the earth was formed. Some of the gas might eventually creep through the earth and escape into the atmosphere; fortunately, when ...

A team of scientists at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics has unveiled new findings about the dying stages of stars ...

Stars like our sun fuse hydrogen in their cores into helium. White dwarfs are stars that have burned up all of the hydrogen they once used as nuclear fuel. Fusion in a star's core produces heat ...