Rare earth elements are crucial to many technologies, and scientists say the U.S. could boost extraction from domestic ...

Over many millions of years, NASA suspects the young world could mature into either of the most common planets found in our ...

A new study reveals that the asteroid 2024 PT5, which has been orbiting Earth for 2 months, may have a "lunar origin." ...

Up on the fifth floor of London's County Hall, an enormous space which for decades echoed with the flapping wings of roosting ...

Earth's "second moon" won't be sticking around for Thanksgiving, but just as many of us will on Thursday (Nov. 28), it seems ...

When stars explode as supernovas, they can cause serious cosmic carnage. Is Earth in any danger from any nearby stars?

A large planet has been spotted orbiting a dwarf star that is just 3 million years old, offering possible clues to how the ...

The Indian Ocean "gravity hole" is a region where Earth's mass is reduced, leading to weak gravitational pull, ...

Microorganisms on a sample of asteroid are clearly terrestrial — despite strict protocols to avoid contamination.

Astronomers have taken the first close-up image of a star beyond our galaxy, and it’s a “monster star” surrounded by a cocoon ...

India's government plans to clamp down on polluting farm fires by measuring the areas burnt instead of live blazes, after ...

Earth may have had a ring made up of a broken asteroid over 400 million years ago, a study finds. The Saturn-like feature ...