China has tremendous power over the rare earths market. The country has the biggest mines, producing 270,000 metric tons (297 ...

Lucy’s next stop — “the main event,” as Levison calls it — will be the Trojan asteroids that share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...

During a brief but dramatic chapter in Earth's history about 41,000 years ago, the planet’s magnetic field nearly collapsed.

The constellation of four satellites can take both narrow- and wide-field images of the Sun to study its corona and solar ...

Tutolo led a new study of rock samples collected by the Curiosity rover that might have answered this question. The mystery ...

“Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are clouds of electrified, magnetic gas weighing billions of tons ejected from the Sun and ...

T he Sun goes through an 11-year cycle of activity, going from the solar maximum, where it is covered in many sunspots and is ...

Microsoft, in collaboration with Western Digital, Critical Materials Recycling, and PedalPoint Recycling, is transforming 50,000 pounds of retired hard disk drives and server hardware – including from ...

A rare 'smiley face' triple conjunction is coming to Earth's morning skies on April 25, when Venus, Saturn and the crescent ...

New research suggests meteor showers are so unpredictable due to the Sun’s own motion around the solar‑system barycenter.

According to scientists who observe the Sun's activity, the life span of the yellow star is about 10 billion years.