On July 9, 2025, scientists at the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) reported that the Earth ...

When the moon is positioned farther from Earth's equator and closer to the poles, its pull on the planet becomes weaker. With ...

Colossal volcanic eruptions like the kind that may have obliterated the dinosaurs more than 65 million years ago are caused ...

As Earth spins faster than it has in decades, atomic clocks are catching the difference, and shorter days are on the horizon.

The Defense Department is buying $400 million of stock in rare-earth mining company MP Materials as it seeks to boost ...

Normally, younger rocks are deposited above older ones, forming predictable geologic layers. In the North Sea, this process ...

The Defense Department on Thursday became the largest shareholder in MP Materials, which owns the only rare earth mine in the ...

MP Materials said on Thursday it has entered into a public-private partnership with the U.S. Department of Defense to ...

The European Parliament condemned China on Thursday over its export restrictions on rare earths and insisted the European ...

Astronomers claim to have found new evidence supporting a controversial observation that our galaxy is residing in an ...

Our respondents are quick to point out the issues with using Earth’s rotation to get to a destination, not least the ...

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