Unlike the helium we are most familiar with—also known as Helium-4 (4 He)—primordial helium, or helium-3 (3 He), does not originate on Earth. It has two protons and one neutron, as opposed to ...

That is, helium which differs from normal helium, or 4 He, so called because it contains two protons and two neutrons and is continuously produced by radioactive decay. Primordial helium ...

That's because it means helium could be mixed up in the core, where iron is in its most highly pressurized state in or on Earth. In fact, according to a team led by physicist Haruki Takezawa of the ...

Earth’s core could contain helium from the early solar system. The noble gas tucks into gaps in iron crystals under high pressure and temperature.

The discovery that inert helium can form bonds with iron may reshape our understanding of Earth’s history. Researchers from ...

“It has the right geological ingredients,” he says. “There aren’t many places on the planet that have them.” (In addition to Minnesota, Pulsar is exploring helium production at a ...

The findings confirm that helium could stay locked in Earth's solid inner core for a long time, Olson told Live Science, but he cautioned that only 4% of the core is solid. "This is significant ...

"Helium tends to escape at ambient conditions very easily; everyone has seen an inflatable balloon wither and sink. So, we needed a way to avoid this when taking our measurements," he said.

“Speaking to people who were on the drill rig at the time, it was violent and terrifying,” said Thomas Abraham-James, president and CEO of Pulsar Helium, which he co-founded in 2019. The ...

Helium normally has trouble bonding with other ... “These results support that the Earth’s core can be a large reservoir of primordial 3 He,” the researchers said in the same study.