Chinese researchers found a rare crystal, Changesite-(Y), on the Moon. It contains helium-3, a key ingredient for nuclear fusion. Helium-3 ...

China's dominance in rare earth metals has come at a steep environmental price, particularly in Baotou, Inner Mongolia, where toxic sludge ...

Of the over 74,000 known meteorites on Earth, only around 385 originate from Mars. Scientists can determine that these meteorites come from...

A study suggests that the Moon is at least 4.46 billion years old, pushing back its age by 40 million years. Researchers used crystals brou...

Betelgeuse is one of the brightest stars and lately, it has been showing unexpected behavior which has busied scientists, all over again, t...

Voyager 1 was launched after Voyager 2, on September 5. Attached to the flank of each Voyager was a Golden Record carrying greetings, sound...

Microscopic dust particles found in meteoritic material on Earth were likely formed in stellar explosions that occurred long before the cre...

A dense atmosphere like Earth's is relatively rare in our solar system because an object has to be sufficiently massive to have enough grav...

Colcanic ash blanketed parts of rural Iceland on Friday and left a widening arc of grounded aircraft across Europe, as thousands of planes ...