For centuries, the quest for new elements was a driving force in many scientific disciplines. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. For ...

Our solar system appears beautifully organized, but its stability is actually the result of an incredibly delicate cosmic ...

"Proceedings of the American Chemical Society Symposium: Origins of Elements in the Solar System: Implications of Post 1957 Observations, held August 22-26, 1999, in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA"-T.p.

Fluctuating levels of radioactive iron-60 suggest the solar system recently entered a cosmic cloud.

To find out, we analysed a 300kg section of Antarctic ice, dating from 40,000 to 80,000 years ago. The process is painstaking ...

Supernovae and some stars that aren’t like our present-day Sun create radioactive elements not found in our solar system.

Meteorites, especially carbonaceous chondrites, have become invaluable sources to shed light on Earth’s origin story. As the most primitive materials of our solar system, these space rocks are ...