A new study brings insight to how atmospheric noble gases, in particular argon and neon, cycle from the surface to the Earth's mantle, and back to the surface again. With every breath we take, we ...

Today the periodic table is a familiar sight in science classrooms. It takes the 118 elements that compose everything in the known universe and arranges them so that substances in any given column ...

(This June 2 story corrects paragraph five to show that Russia accounts for 30% supply of three noble gases, not all noble gases) (Reuters) - Sanctions-hit Russia has limited exports of noble gases ...

It’s raining on Jupiter. And probably on Saturn too. But it isn’t raining rain, you know. It’s raining . . . helium. Yes, droplets of that inert gas that keeps the Goodyear blimp aloft and that powers ...

Users of helium and neon still get indigestion from recalling recent shortages of the two noble gases. But new investments this year by producers are likely to help stave off a repeat of earlier ...

Artist's impression of planets forming around a young star. New, very precise measurements of krypton isotopes from deep in the Earth show that water, carbon and other volatile materials were ...

An effort to mimic the conditions of planetary gas-giant interiors in the lab might have solved the mystery of why Saturn is so much hotter than its larger next-door neighbor, Jupiter. Both are pretty ...