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

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 ...

These images mark an early milestone in the mission, confirming that OSIRIS-APEX is healthy and on course for its 2029 ...

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

The rare earth industry has spent years circling the same problem. Minerals move through too many borders, too many ...

One year ago, the FBI raided Polymarket founder Shayne Coplan’s apartment. Now, the college dropout is one of the youngest ...

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

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

A multi-billion dollar pipeline of rare earth projects around the world is set to partly wean the U.S. off Chinese rare ...

Around 56 million years ago, Earth suddenly got much hotter. Over about 5,000 years, the amount of carbon in the atmosphere ...

Members of the Flat Earth Society claim to believe the Earth is flat despite scientists explaining how we know the Earth is ...

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