The US is impatient for a plan to break China’s stranglehold on the supply of critical minerals. This week may mark the ...

Scientists Alarmed After Finding 'Highly Toxic' Goo Spread Across Earth's Ocean Floor ...

Earth's magnetic field is generated by the churn of its liquid nickel-iron outer core, but it is not a constant feature.

Russian Luch “inspector” satellites are suspected of shadowing European GEO spacecraft, raising fears of interception, ...

Global climate models capture many of the processes that shape Earth's weather and climate. Based on physics, chemistry, ...

The most common critical minerals are distributed globally, although some countries have particularly large reserves. China is estimated to have 44 million tonnes of rare earth reserves, while Brazil ...

Scientific publications by women can take more time to review before being accepted, which can have implications for career ...

NASA's Perseverance rover, launched in Florida, discovered bleached rocks on Mars, providing new evidence that the planet was ...

A giant underwater canyon system in the Atlantic appears to have formed through tectonic forces rather than erosion.

Experiments show that extracting rare earths from acid mine drainage can turn something harmful into a useful resource. But ...

Japan said it successfully retrieved deep-sea sediment containing rare earth elements, a test the government framed as a step ...

Using an unprecedented amount of high-resolution satellite data, researchers have found that Earth’s fault lines are far weaker—and continents far less rigid—than long-standing geological models ...