Low environmental standards helped China become the world’s low-cost producer of rare earths, but Beijing was also focused on ...

A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that forests in many parts of the ...

Since Kepler's laws of motion dictate that celestial bodies orbit more slowly when farther from the sun, we are now moving at ...

Scientists uncover signs that Earth’s resilience to carbon emissions may be unraveling faster than climate models suggest. A ...

Japan will begin test mining for rare-earth-rich mud from the deep seabed off Minamitori Island, some 1,900 kilometres (1,180 ...

China's Tianwen-2 probe continues on its journey to rendezvous with a near-Earth asteroid (NEA) before heading to the main ...

If you have thought that the Earth is close to the sun in the summertime and that is why it is hotter this time of year, you ...

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...