Scientists who are members of the Borexino Collaboration have provided the first experimental proof of the occurrence of the so-called CNO cycle in the Sun: They have managed to directly detect the ...

Most people realize our Sun is producing light and heat from the fusion of hydrogen into helium. However, the process of merging together hydrogen nuclei into helium is not as straightforward as it ...

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 ...

The universe could be a billion years older than previous estimates according to the latest results from the LUNA experiment in Italy. The results suggest that the cross-section for a crucial reaction ...

For the first time ever, physicists have spotted rare, ghostly particles produced by a weird kind of fusion inside the sun. The particles, called CNO-produced neutrinos, traveled from the sun to a ...

For the first time, the international team was able to directly observe neutrinos from this cycle (CNO neutrinos). Stars produce their energy through nuclear fusion by converting hydrogen into helium ...