Sixty-six light-years away, an Earth-sized exoplanet completes an orbit in under six hours, skimming around its star at ...

There is a new, U.S.-based, environmentally friendly method for mining rare-earth elements used in consumer electronics, clean energy, defense and biomedical imaging. By using oxalic acid made by ...

A new study shows a bonobo can track pretend juice and grapes, suggesting apes also have imagination, not only humans.

Calling all fans of paleontology and natural history — NBC's new eight-part docu-series Surviving Earth will premiere on Thursday, June 4, on NBC at 8 p.m. ET/PT.

The arrangement is worth US$96 million and will cover heavy and light rare-earth products, the company said in a statement ...

Certain locations around the world appear to defy basic physical principles. At some of these sites, cars seem to roll uphill ...

Blue Origin paused its space tourism program in Texas, leaving Virgin Galactic to fill the void. Richard Branson's company ...

Earth-size planet (HD 137010 b) found orbiting a nearby star once a year, making it a promising target for finding life.

A part of the retaining wall built over a raised channel filled with earth, near Sardanga of Memari, tumbled, its impact ...

Kepler Communications today announced the commissioning of distributed on-orbit computing across its Tranche 1 optical data relay constellation, the world’s first commercially operational optical data ...

At the southernmost tip of South America lies a 400,000-acre wilderness once considered too desolate to survive. Now, a ...

Helgi Hjorleifsson, a firefighter, is a leader in a national experiment to steer rivers of lava away from important sites.