In the 1950s, Stanley Miller and Nobel laureate Harold Urey conducted experiments at the University of Chicago in which they ...

The U.S. once controlled the market on rare earth elements, sought after for a range of technologies. But in the last few ...

Niger says it will open an investigation into the sale of a Martian meteorite discovered in the West African country’s Agadez ...

When a mysterious space vessel crash-lands on Earth, a young woman and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery.

The sporting goods section is a testament to Wisconsin’s outdoor culture. Fishing rods lean against walls like slender ...

This year, the alert system for defending the planet against incoming space rocks was activated for the first time. It won’t be the last ...

The LIGO Hanford Observatory near the Tri-Cities and its twin in Louisiana detected ripples of time and space passing through ...

The future of at least one of the U.S. LIGO observatories is in jeopardy as deep cuts to science programs are proposed by the Trump administration.

Using the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Gemini North telescope in Hawaii, astronomers have captured the first detailed ...

Scientists have discovered the world's largest waterfall, the Denmark Strait cataract, hidden beneath the ocean between Greenland and Iceland. Plungin ...

Crinia is a unique 5-kilometer asteroid that shares Earth’s orbit in a rare one-to-one rhythm. Despite its nickname as Earth’s “second moon, ” it actually orbits the sun with a looping path that ...

As rare earth magnet shortages threaten India’s EV and defence sectors, a little-known state-run firm, 75 years old, is ...