Around 4.5 billion years ago, a planet called Theia is thought to have smashed into newborn Earth. The messy collision kicked ...
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 ...
Yttrium plays a critical role in everything from aircraft engines to semiconductors. China controls the vast majority of the ...
Scientists found 3.3 billion-year-old biosignatures in ancient meteorites and fossils—a billion years older than we thought ...
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 ...
How China gained control of 90% of rare-earth refining while the U.S. abandoned Mountain Pass mine, creating dangerous ...
Some forecasters say a complex dance involving the polar vortex could send some of Earth's most extreme cold toward the ...