Methane clathrate, also known as methane hydrate or fire ice, a naturally existing solid compound that brings together two unlikely companions: water and methane gas. Water molecules form a "cage" ...

For decades, scientists have agreed that comets are mostly water ice, but what kind of ice—amorphous or crystalline—is still up for debate. Looking at data obtained by ESA's Rosetta spacecraft in the ...

For decades, scientists have agreed that comets are mostly water ice, but what kind of ice -- amorphous or crystalline -- is still up for debate. Looking at data obtained by ESA's Rosetta spacecraft ...

Researchers led by scientists from CNRS in France are exploring an exotic form of silicon called silicon clathrate as a material for energy applications, including photovoltaics. Mastering the ...

Just like on Earth, water on other planets, satellites, and even comets comes in a variety of forms depending on multiple factors such as pressure and temperature. Aside from the gaseous, liquid, and ...

Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is the only place other than Earth known to have an atmosphere and liquids in the form of rivers, lakes and seas on its surface. Because of its extremely cold temperature ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Well those clathrates, as Geoff Hudson will explain in a minute, are gigantic deposits of methane at ...

In our ongoing quest to transform into a more eco-friendly society, hydrogen (H 2) is heralded as the clean fuel of tomorrow. Because H 2 can be produced from water (H 2 O) without generating carbon ...

In contrast to crystalline solids, liquids possess no long-range order. Nonetheless, many liquids still display significant amounts of local structure which can strongly influence their properties. I ...

A decade after it was theorized, scientists in China have synthesized a new type of superconductor, the superhydride CaH 6. (Courtesy: Hongbo Wang/Jilin University) Researchers in China have ...

THE clathrate type of molecular compound is formed by the imprisonment of one sort of molecule in some kind of cage structure of the other component. In the compound the molecular component M is ...