Yttrium plays a critical role in everything from aircraft engines to semiconductors. China controls the vast majority of the ...

Around 4.5 billion years ago, a planet called Theia is thought to have smashed into newborn Earth. The messy collision kicked ...

Scientists found 3.3 billion-year-old biosignatures in ancient meteorites and fossils—a billion years older than we thought ...

NASA's OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft captured stunning new images as it whipped past Earth during a high-speed slingshot maneuver, ...

Some forecasters say a complex dance involving the polar vortex could send some of Earth's most extreme cold toward the ...

How China gained control of 90% of rare-earth refining while the U.S. abandoned Mountain Pass mine, creating dangerous ...

MP operates the Mountain Pass mine in California, one of the few rare earth mines of scale in the U.S. In addition to this, ...

It takes light a single day to travel 16 billion miles. The Voyager 1 probe will need a little longer, just 49 years.

Two mysterious blobs deep inside Earth may hold clues about the origin of life on our planet, new research finds. Deep ...

One of the most elegant theories about the origins of life on our planet is that it was kick-started by a delivery from outer ...