(via SciShow Space) Not all of the naturally occurring elements were discovered here on Earth. Helium was discovered by examining sunlight, and that same technique is now teaching us about the ...

Immediately after the Big Bang, before the first stars in the Universe ever formed, the Universe consisted of hydrogen (element #1), helium (element #2) and pretty much nothing else. Despite ...

Discovered in the 1800s in the solar spectrum, helium has been an element that has eluded humans for centuries. Despite being listed as one of the most abundant elements in the universe, this noble ...

If current global demand continues, we can face a shortage of helium within the next 40 years. Helium is the second most common element after hydrogen. In fact, a quarter of the mass of the entire ...

Helium is the second-most abundant element in the known universe, but it's incredibly rare on Earth. Here is where we get our helium, why we’re running low, and why the gas is useful for more than ...

Did you realize that just like certain animals here on Earth, there are endangered elements, too? For example, we’re constantly losing helium, a gas that defies gravity and escapes our atmosphere into ...

Throughout the mid-1800s, improvements on the spectroscope allowed physicists to more accurately measure the wavelengths of light and identify new elements—like helium. Wikimedia Commons “I have ...

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, ...

Jon Gluyas received funding from Statoil to undertake this research and Helium-One provided funds to collaborators to undertake sampling of the gases in Tanzania and their subsequent analysis. Helium ...