Helium is the second-most common element in the cosmos, but it's far rarer on planet Earth. As part of our celebration of the periodic table's 150th birthday, reporter Geoff Brumfiel shares a ...

Recently, a team of scientists was able to detect metastable helium in the upper atmosphere of an exoplanet. Now we can study planets that are much further away.

An inquest into the 20-year-old’s death has now found Ms. Batistich was “unaware of the inherent dangers of inhaling helium,” and called for warning labels on canisters to be made clearer.

Global helium production averaged about 160 million cubic feet between 2019 to 2023, according to the report. Demand for the gas is likely to rise five-fold in the semiconductor industry, the ...

Boeing's Starliner spacecraft landed uncrewed in a New Mexico desert late on Friday. Sign up here. Past missions have that have been affected by pesky helium leaks include ISRO's Chandrayaan 2 and ...

Whereas helium-4 is a common product of the decay of radioactive elements, helium-3 comes almost entirely from the initial cloud of dust and gas that formed the solar system. This primordial ...

That’s why Pulsar Helium is working on developing a project near Babbitt. WDIO visited the Topaz Project site on Monday, which includes two wells, Jet Stream 1 and Jet Stream 2.

For a century, the U.S. Government-owned the largest helium reserve in the country, but the biggest exporters now are in Russia, Qatar and Tanzania. With this new discovery, Minnesota could be ...

Laboratory tests in June placed helium concentrations in the reservoir between 8.7% and 14.5%, topping previous maximum estimates of 12.4% and 13.8%.