Solid helium represents a unique quantum solid whose low temperature properties challenge conventional understanding of condensed matter. Its remarkable behaviour, including supersolidity and quantum ...

Helium is the second most abundant element in the universe after hydrogen. But scientists aren’t sure just how much there actually is in the Sun’s atmosphere, where it is hard to measure. Knowing the ...

China confirms the first helium-rich gas supergiant in the Tarim Basin: Hetianhe rewrites the map of strategic resources.

The James Webb Space Telescope has caught a distant world in the act of falling apart, its outer layers peeling away into space as a vast cloud of helium. The planet, a so‑called “super‑puff” with the ...