After the sun arrives at its solstice point, it will begin to migrate back toward the south and the amount of daylight in the ...

Earth has not always been so hospitable to live. During several ice ages, the planet's surface was almost completely frozen ...

It's a warm January summer afternoon, and as I traverse the flower-strewn western slopes of Australia's highest mountain, ...

European Union leaders will use a summit with China next month to seek better access to Chinese rare earths and critical ...

The organization of life on Earth follows a simple, hidden rule known as “core-to-transition organization.” Hypothesized by ...

At the heart of the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a digital camera that will create an unparalleled map of the cosmos.

When the Earth froze over, where did life shelter? MIT scientists say one refuge may have been pools of melted ice that ...

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Record-high greenhouse gas emissions are set to exhaust the planet’s “carbon budget” within three years, passing another ...

China's commerce ministry said on Thursday that "a certain number" of rare earth export licence applications had been ...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wants to send a cargo ship to Mars by the end of next year. Here’s why that plan likely won’t pan out.

However, a 2021 NASA study found that the excess of incoming sunlight over outgoing radiation, known as Earth’s energy ...