For more than a decade, China has treated rare earths as instruments of strategic influence. That leverage, however, may now ...

Pinpointing when early land plants colonized terrestrial environments and began influencing Earth's systems is a core ...

Guinness World Records has officially declared a sock monkey the size of a semi-truck to be the largest sculpture of its kind ...

Scientists traced the mysterious global vibration back to a single, 650-foot wave violently trapped inside a remote waterway.

On Feb. 24, 2014, scientists announced that a tiny zircon crystal from Australia, 4.4 billion years old, was confirmed to be ...

On Jan. 31, 1958, Explorer 1 became the first satellite launched by the United States. Its primary science instrument, a ...

USA Rare Earth (NASDAQ: USAR) isn't a name you hear every day. But its product is certainly something you encounter every day ...

By Allison Lampert, Laurie Chen, Lewis Jackson and Michael Martina MONTREAL/BEIJING/WASHINGTON, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Suppliers to U.S. aerospace and semiconductor firms face worsening rare earth ...

Earth’s green center has been drifting steadily for decades, reflecting a change in where vegetation grows most intensely.

Earth’s magnetic shield is shifting in dramatic ways. New data from ESA’s Swarm satellites show that the South Atlantic Anomaly — a vast weak spot in Earth’s magnetic field — has grown by nearly half ...

Asteroid 2026 CU1 will sweep past Earth this week at high speed, close enough to attract attention yet deemed safe, raising ...

A persistent "gravity hole" beneath Antarctica gives scientists a window into Earth's deep interior, showing how processes far below reshape the planet's gravity field over millions of years.