China has issued the first batch of new rare earth export licenses that should accelerate shipments to certain customers, a ...

Yttrium plays a critical role in everything from aircraft engines to semiconductors. China controls the vast majority of the ...

Materials that are essential for the transition to a sustainable society are currently being extracted using methods that are ...

Arianespace launched a Vega C, sending South Korea's KOMPSAT-7 satellite into Earth orbit, the sixth flight by the ...

Scientists found 3.3 billion-year-old biosignatures in ancient meteorites and fossils—a billion years older than we thought ...

Earth may have a moon today because a nearby neighbor once crashed into us, a new analysis of Apollo samples and terrestrial ...

Some forecasters say a complex dance involving the polar vortex could send some of Earth's most extreme cold toward the ...

The northeastern US is set to be blasted with the with most extreme cold on Earth later this month, according to shocking new ...

It takes light a single day to travel 16 billion miles. The Voyager 1 probe will need a little longer, just 49 years.

Around 56 million years ago, Earth suddenly got much hotter. Over about 5,000 years, the amount of carbon in the atmosphere ...

How China gained control of 90% of rare-earth refining while the U.S. abandoned Mountain Pass mine, creating dangerous ...

These images mark an early milestone in the mission, confirming that OSIRIS-APEX is healthy and on course for its 2029 ...