They're in the headlines every week—critical minerals like lithium, cobalt, nickel, graphite and the rare earth elements ...

For over half a billion years, Earth’s magnetic field has risen and fallen in sync with oxygen levels in the atmosphere, and scientists are finally uncovering why. A NASA-led study reveals a striking ...

Geologists have long debated whether a stony formation in Canada contains the world’s oldest rocks – new measurements make a ...

If the new age of these Canadian rocks is solid, they would be the first and only ones known to have survived Earth’s earliest, tumultuous time.

"Everything I had studied had basically gone to waste." Students are expressing their frustration over a Regents exam they ...

Through a variety of science activities, students explore the evolution of life on Earth and search for clues to the possible ...

Earth’s atmosphere now has more carbon dioxide in it than it has in millions — and possibly tens of millions — of years, according to data released Thursday by the National Oceanic and ...

A gigantic asteroid, bigger than San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, is set to fly by Earth on June 5, as per NASA. The space rock, known as Asteroid 424482 (2008 DG5), measures nearly 1,400 feet ...

Kepler-725c completes one orbit of its star every 207.5 days, meaning a year there is shorter than a year on Earth. Due to differences in its axis compared with our planet, the planet receives ...

Funding for science is very much on the chopping block in President Trump's proposed budget. It's a fraught moment for NASA, particularly for those focused on earth science and not human space travel.

Korenaga explains, ‘About 4.5 billion years ago, Earth was hit by a Mars-sized rock and the moon formed as the debris from this collision went into an Earth-orbiting disk.