Rare-earth stocks have significantly risen since the middle of last year, driven by government-backed funding for some firms.

BepiColombo is slowly uncovering more and more fun facts about Mercury as it continues its preliminary mission. One of the ...

Scientists continue to mine data gathered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, retired in 2018, and continue to turn up ...

A treasure trove of Cambrian fossils has been discovered in southern China, providing a window on marine life shortly after ...

Doomsday Clock ticks to 85 seconds to midnight, signaling rising nuclear threats, climate change, and AI risks.

Earth is covered with technofossils, or man-made materials, that will last for centuries and maybe even longer.

About 700 million years ago, Earth was entombed in a veneer of ice hundreds of feet thick—a frozen state scientists refer to as “Snowball Earth.” Oceans cooled but managed to retain some heat to avoid ...