Planets can survive the death of their stars and become capable of supporting life; Now astronomers will start looking for them. Stars can’t survive forever, Sun including. In about five billion yearsThe Earth star will begin to consume the hydrogen source it uses to produce energy. nuclear fusion in its core. The Sun’s core will… Read More »
The secrets of supernova star explosions may be hidden in dust scattered across the moon, and a team of scientists from the China Institute of Atomic Energy (CIAE) has developed a new way to uncover these clues of star death. The research could help scientists get a clearer picture of how stars die and provide… Read More »
A fusion reactor in the south of France has reached a major milestone towards clean, unlimited energy. Fusion reactor WEST created a super-hot plasma and maintained it for a record-breaking 6 minutes. The experiment lays the foundation for a larger fusion reactor called ITER. A fusion reactor in southern France called WEST has reached a… Read More »
White dwarfs are the stars that will be left behind when stars like the Sun “die” and smolder in space as cooling stellar embers. Recent observations have shown that some of these stellar corpses may take longer to cool than previously expected. This means that white dwarfs may have a way to produce energy after… Read More »
Nuclear fusion power was supposed to be a dream come true. The moment we discovered that you can break very few things atoms Coming together to form larger atoms and releasing small amounts of energy in the process, scientists realized what this new physics knowledge meant. Some wanted to turn it into a weapon, but… Read More »
JT-60SA is a tokamak in Japan that is currently the largest fusion reactor in the world.Fusion for Energy Japan’s experimental nuclear fusion reactor is operational. JT-60SA is the most powerful experimental fusion reactor currently in operation. It’s a different device than the NIFs that broke the fusion breakthrough last year. Nuclear fusion has the potential… Read More »
In the heart of Provence, some of the brightest scientific minds on the planet are setting the stage for the world’s largest and most ambitious science experiment. “We are building arguably the most complex machine ever designed,” admits Laban Coblentz. The task at hand is to demonstrate the feasibility of harnessing nuclear fusion (the same… Read More »
Scientists have discovered the first signs of nuclear fission occurring between stars. This discovery supports the idea that when neutron stars collide with each other, they create “superheavy” elements that are heavier than the heaviest elements of the periodic table, which then break apart. nuclear fission to birth elements like gold in your jewelry. Nuclear… Read More »