Plus other weird things we learned this week.

As the U.S.–China trade war ramps up, rare earths are among the most important pieces of leverage that China controls. There ...

Humans had to aim high to reach the moon, but the Saturn V rocket was like nothing anyone has seen before or since.

A team from the University of Bern and the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS has developed a ...

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust ...

K2-360 is a newly found planetary system with a super-dense planet, likely the core of a former larger world, shaped by dynamic interactions with its companion. An international team of researchers ...

Scientists discovered Earth's first crust had continental chemical signatures. This challenges beliefs about when these ...

As the Aral Sea has been drained by irrigation and dried up, the mass loss on the surface has caused Earth’s upper mantle to rise up, lifting the emptied sea bed an average of 7 millimetres per year ...

The Perseverance rover has found some intriguing samples on the red planet. Here's what they might reveal about the origins ...

By being closer to our planet and networking together, Starlink's satellites are meant to carry large amounts of information rapidly to any point on Earth, even over the oceans and in extremely ...

North Jersey towns and organizations are celebrating Earth Day and Arbor Day, with activities, celebrations and educational ...