Many space-lovers know the phrase “We are all made of star stuff.” And it’s true — our planet formed from the dust cloud left over from the formation of our Sun, and from the planet, all life. That ...

“We are stardust, we are golden / We are billion-year-old carbon.” So wrote Joni Mitchell, also noting that she dreamed of bomber jet planes turning into butterflies. The 1970 song has lost none of ...

The journey of the elements starts in the earliest moments of the Big Bang, when our universe was only a few seconds to a few minutes old. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...