NASA's newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe. Now ...

When we have failed to live up to the Declaration and our constitutional principles, we don’t give up. We try to make things ...

Two studies fill in gaps about the cosmos’s ordinary matter. One maps it all, even the “missing matter.” The other details one of its hiding spots.

Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...

Less research on environmental risks means we will be forced to operate with an incomplete understanding of those risks.

"Returning the scientifically selected samples that await us on Mars, as part of a balanced portfolio, will help to ensure ...

Mass hunger continues to stalk Gaza as the United Nations warned on Friday that the besieged enclave is the “hungriest place on earth.” Jens Laerke, a spokesperson for the UN’s humanitarian ...

Deep-sea diving activity has been concentrated in a small number of locations, including Monterey Bay and Hawaii in the United States, Suruga and Sagami Bays in Japan, and New Zealand.

MP Materials, America’s only rare earth mine, shipped over 80 percent of its output to a Chinese firm over the past few years. Not by choice—but because the U.S. lacks domestic capacity and ...

April 30 (UPI) --The United States and Ukraine on Wednesday created a Reconstruction Investment Fund that includes rare earth mineral rights in the European nation. The arrangement, which was ...

Jimmy Emerson, DVM/flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Geologist Mark Harrison of UCLA applauds the researchers’ efforts but emphasizes that their results only reflect rocks available at Earth’s surface.