China is still restricting the rare earth elements that the US needs to produce its own permanent magnets and other products ...

For nearly a billion years, Earth’s rotation stopped slowing down. Locked in a rare cosmic balance, the planet’s day remained ...

The West Virginia University Board of Governors has put its support behind the creation of a for-profit limited liability company with a goal of bringing WVU-developed rare earth element technologies ...

America’s ability to make precision-guided missiles was threatened during Trump’s tariff war. But experienced players have ...

When Earth was a molten inferno, water may have been locked safely underground rather than lost to space. Researchers ...

Earth keeps getting warmer because more energy from sunlight stays trapped in the climate system. Scientists refer to this as ...

Earth is taking in more energy than it releases back to space—a growing "energy imbalance" that is fueling global warming. A ...

Research evaluates the likelihood of debris from interstellar object 3I/ATLAS reaching Earth, analyzing gas, dust and larger ...

AVIRIS-5 is one of the newest tools in a joint research project from NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) called GEMx. The project is designed to search for surface traces of critical minerals, ...

Over the holidays, a team of researchers, including one from Minnesota, is hard at work in Antarctica. The scientists are ...

Asteroid Apophis will make a historic close approach to Earth on April 13, 2029, passing within 32,000 kilometers. While ...