A: Hydrogen and helium are by far the most abundant elements found in the Sun, making up about 98 percent of its mass, but other, heavier elements play an important role in the physical processes that ...

With nuclear fusion in the news, we look to the sun. An old hand at the process, it squeezed its first hydrogen atoms together 4.6 billion years ago. On August 31, 2012 a long filament of solar ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The Joint European Torus (JET)—the largest and most powerful operational fusion reactor in the world—has replicated the ...

An international milestone in energy research has been achieved with the successful sustaining of a fusion reaction for 100 seconds in an “artificial sun” experiment. This breakthrough represents a ...

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As far as raw explosive power goes, no other cataclysm in the Universe is both as common and as destructive as a core-collapse supernova. In one brief event lasting only seconds, a runaway reaction ...

The Borexino experiment detected particles from our star’s second-most important fusion process Neutrinos spit out by the main processes that power the sun are finally accounted for, physicists report ...