For decades, helium has been produced with natural gas, generating huge carbon emissions. Now, geologists are looking for new ...

Levels of potentially dangerous cosmic radiation in Earth's atmosphere rose to a two-decade high in November after a rare ...

NASA said the discovery shows such "building blocks" of life are "widespread throughout the solar system." ...

Searching for technosignatures—signs of technology on a planet that we can see from afar—remains a difficult task. There are ...

What can today's scientists learn about astronomical phenomena from ancient texts?

Scientists can usually spot coronal mass ejections before they affect Earth—but this one snuck past coronagraphs and ...

Ice masses are alive with activity, images reveal.

Fresh evidence suggests early Earth wasn’t locked under a rigid stagnant lid but was already experiencing intense subduction.

Construction of a $60 million state-of-the-art rare earth processing and separation demonstration plant is complete in Upton, ...

The number of billionaires worldwide – and their combined wealth – reached record highs this year, buoyed in particular by ...