In the 1950s, Stanley Miller and Nobel laureate Harold Urey conducted experiments at the University of Chicago in which they ...

The U.S. once controlled the market on rare earth elements, sought after for a range of technologies. But in the last few ...

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Niger says it will open an investigation into the sale of a Martian meteorite discovered in the West African country’s Agadez ...

When a mysterious space vessel crash-lands on Earth, a young woman and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery.

A tiny object far beyond Pluto, newly discovered by the Subaru Telescope, could reshape our understanding of the early Solar System. Named 2023 KQ14, this rare “sednoid” follows an unusual orbit that ...

The sporting goods section is a testament to Wisconsin’s outdoor culture. Fishing rods lean against walls like slender ...

In a cosmic breakthrough, scientists using the James Webb and ALMA telescopes have caught a rare glimpse of a planetary ...

This year, the alert system for defending the planet against incoming space rocks was activated for the first time. It won’t be the last ...

The LIGO Hanford Observatory near the Tri-Cities and its twin in Louisiana detected ripples of time and space passing through ...

The future of at least one of the U.S. LIGO observatories is in jeopardy as deep cuts to science programs are proposed by the Trump administration.

Scientists are racing to learn as much as possible about the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS before it fades from view forever ...