NASA has been monitoring a strange anomaly in Earth's magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the skies ...

The U.S. Space Force must invest in a balanced force capable of deterring and defending against aggressors in space, as the ...

On March 29, the Moon will wedge itself between the Sun and Earth, blocking only a part of the star from our view.

Named after a Norwegian ship that explored the Arctic and Antarctic regions at the turn of the 20th century, Fram2 will ...

SpaceX plans to launch a Falcon 9 rocket on a Starlink mission Sunday afternoon from Cape Canaveral. Monday night will bring ...

Sea ice plays many important roles for the global climate: Its white surface can reflect energy back into space, helping the ...

Martian lake beds and deltas reveal the Red Planet’s watery past. But many puzzles remain, scientist Bruce Jakosky says.

Planets can be extremely hot when they are born, and new computational experiments show that such planets would have an atmosphere composed of a homogenous mixture of hydrogen and water. As the ...

SpaceX is targeting Wednesday afternoon for the liftoff of a Falcon 9 rocket out of Vandenberg Space Force Base.

A week after a SpaceX crew module returned four astronauts from the ISS, their luggage module seems to have caused a wild ...

A case in point: a European Space Agency satellite, known as ERS-2, launched in 1995 and inactive since 2011, tumbled through ...

This story was originally published by Grist with the headline The weirdest ways scientists are mining for critical minerals, ...