As evidence of Krypton's environmental precarity mounts, the ruling council fights even harder to hide behind the myth of utopia. But a refusal to confront the problem is truly a refusal to attempt a ...

Scientists say they have developed a means of accurately dating Earth’s oldest and densest polar ice by analyzing the composition of krypton gas trapped within ancient air bubbles. In a study ...

Radioactive krypton could help researchers track down the world's oldest ice, filling a crucial gap in Earth's climate history. Scientists are currently searching for Antarctic ice at least 1.2 ...

NEW YORK -- Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson just did Superman a super favor. The scientist, who is director of New York City's Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History, was ...

In 1,000,000 quarts of air there is one quart of krypton. An inert gas discovered in 1898 by Ramsay and Travers, krypton is scarcer and less volatile than argon, neon and xenon; its name means “the ...

Since it was first announced, Syfy’s upcoming series Krypton has had an uphill climb. The latest in a line of place-specific, high-concept superhero prequels like Smallville or Gotham, Krypton is ...

Krypton from the Earth's mantle, collected from geologic hot spots in Iceland and the Galapagos Islands, reveals a clearer picture of how our planet formed, according to new research. The findings ...

When I tried searching “krypton” on the Internet, the top ten results almost alternated between two topics. While one set corresponded to krypton the chemical element, the other set referred to the ...

There’s a reason that one ice core drilled from the Greenland Ice Sheet has been referred to as The Two-Mile Time Machine—the annual layers of snow (compressed to ice) provide remarkable records of ...

Could the fact that astronomers have yet to find a planet matching the Man of Steel's origin story be the reason he's so moody and peeved at Batman? Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011.