NASA's Perseverance rover has begun drilling into a rock on Mars as it tries to collect more information about the Red Planet ...

Lithium and other critical minerals are in often-overlooked water sources like geothermal brines and oilfield produced water.

As the sun grew hotter, so did Mars, prompting much of its atmospheric carbon dioxide to rain out and ultimately get locked ...

They’re not a perfect match, but it’s way too hot on the first planet for us to hop over and confirm for ourselves.

Researchers discovered a way to extract rare earth materials from the Berkeley Pit, a toxic abandoned mine in Butte, Montana.

We're always learning more about our planet. From figuring out where life on Earth originated to exactly what lies beneath ...

An obscure rock formation on the eastern shore of Canada's Hudson Bay may contain the oldest known rocks on Earth, a new ...

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.

No one expected these glittering bits among the gray lunar dust back then. The beads, smaller than grains of sand, formed ...

Key Points Mineral sunscreens act as a shield, sitting on top of the skin and deflecting UV rays, while chemical sunscreens absorb UV rays and convert them into heat. Both are great, but have ...

There have been proposed hypotheses as to how the Moon could have developed a core dynamo. For instance, a 2022 analysis suggested that in the first billion years, when the Moon was covered in molten ...