How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

The "unintentional electromagnetic leakage" from airport radars and military radar systems can be "detectable across ...

The continent wants to reduce the risks of depending so heavily on China for the valuable minerals. The question is how.

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That means returning from the moon, the Artemis astronauts will be traveling at around 0.0037% the speed of light. Assuming a ...

The global supply of heavy rare earths hinges in part on the outcome of a months-long battle between a rebel army and the ...

This 2011 astronaut photo shows the atolls of Rowley Shoals lined up in a near-perfect line off the coast of Australia. The ...

Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name "Hadean" comes from the ...

In the early 1990s, eight people tried to survive in a hermetically sealed glass structure filled with miniature forests, ...

Australian microbe research is helping improve our understanding of the potential for life in extreme environments, offering ...

Differences in the gravitational pull between the Earth and the Moon will make July 9, July 22 and August 5 unusually short.

When China restricted rare earth exports to Japan in 2010 during a diplomatic spat, a wild west domestic industry undermined ...