Like all noble gases, xenon is colourless, odourless and inflammable — but it is also more reactive, and much rarer, than its lighter relatives. Ivan Dmochowski ponders how xenon, though initially ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. Our Universe is old: 13.8 billion years old, to be precise. Many of the ...

Read the travelogue of a xenon atom as it journeys from the air we breathe to a dark-matter detector a mile underground. Sure, I was born inside the blast of a supernova. But what element doesn’t have ...

IS EARTH’S core playing cupid? It seems that xenon, a normally inert gas, can pair up with iron under the extreme conditions there. This could explain why our planet appears to lack xenon. The ...