A global helium shortage is popping a giant hole in Party City's sales, forcing the retailer to close 45 stores across North America. The party supplies retailer blamed the helium shortage for its $30 ...

It'll never rank up there with turkey and pumpkin pie, but for millions of Americans the Thanksgiving experience just wouldn't be the same without ... helium. For 364 days of the year, the colorless ...

The things most people know about helium are that it makes balloons float up and it makes your voice squeaky if you inhale some. But helium is more than just fun and games: it is also a scarce ...

Helium, the second most abundant element in the universe after hydrogen, plays a central role in determining the physical and chemical characteristics of stars.

The world’s known helium reserves just ballooned. Applying gas-finding techniques from the oil industry, scientists uncovered a vast reservoir of more than a trillion liters of helium gas beneath ...

Helium: A colorless, inert gaseous element that is a trace constituent of the atmosphere, amounting to only 0.000524 percent by volume of dry air. Its existence on the sun was recognized before its ...

A NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image released July 7, 2012, shows U Camelopardalis, a star nearing the end of its life located in the constellation of Camelopardalis (The Giraffe), near the North ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover chemistry, from its small molecules to its big questions. Amid political and economic turmoil, Qatar has closed its two ...