Aside from oil, rare earth elements may be the most buzzworthy thing coming out of the ground these days. Headlines trumpet news about new partnerships to produce rare earths, warn of potential ...

Do you know what the farthest point in the ocean is? Or where you can find vending machines that hand out free food during earthquakes? Sounds like trivia you’d only hear at pub quizzes, or maybe ...

The new science fiction film adaptation leans heavily on real science done by the National Aeronautics and Space ...

A new study from Harvard geoscientists reports the oldest direct evidence yet of plate motion, dating to 3.5 billion years ago. In a study published March 19 in Science, the researchers found that ...

The ground below us seems so steady and also unvarying; however, the Earth is a chaotic, bustling work of art. It may have ...

Discover 25 surprising facts about Earth's continents and plates! Learn how our planet constantly shifts, from floating ...

The world is full of surprising facts about the Earth and how we interact with it, even when we don’t understand or ...

As an astrophysicist, my world revolves around the wonders of space and the mysteries of the universe. This means I can be a ...

A researcher discovered the rare cosmic event by noticing strange dips in a star's brightness in old telescope data. The collision created a hot cloud of rocks and dust, which researchers detected ...

Think you know your way around the animal kingdom? You might want to think again. Somewhere deep in the rainforests of Central Africa, there’s a creature that looks like nature couldn’t decide what it ...

Earth's core is mostly made of the metals iron and nickel, but it also contains lighter elements like hydrogen, oxygen and silicon. CharlesC via Wikimedia Commons under CC-BY-3.0 How Earth got its ...

Picture all of Earth’s oceans, which cover about 70% of the planet and are mostly made of hydrogen. Now multiply that by nine. That may be the amount of hydrogen in Earth’s core, possibly making it ...