Plans to build data centers on the Moon have moved from science fiction to hardware already riding lunar landers, and now a new venture wants to push that idea into the quantum era. Instead of ...

With their thrilling sci-fi aesthetics, spaceplanes are an attractive alternative to rockets. They are attractive in ...

BEIJING -- Chinese authorities have unveiled a set of interim rules to strengthen the control and management of rare earth mining, smelting and separation. The interim rules, made public on Friday, ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

LEOMs like open-source Clay automate detailed Earth mapping, enabling rapid analysis for research, government, business.

Earth may have a moon today because a nearby neighbor once crashed into us, a new analysis of Apollo samples and terrestrial rocks reveals. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Now in its sixth year, the Cornell project team CU GeoData bridges engineering and earth sciences to design and deploy environmental sensors, including a sensor network across the Finger Lakes and a ...

On a plateau in southern France, crews are assembling ITER’s core – a steel chamber about 64 feet wide – to recreate a solar fusion reaction here on Earth. This is the moment when a decades-long plan ...

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today presented a 26-member team with the ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modeling in recognition of their project "Computing the Full Earth System at 1 ...

Clean Earth Inc. is a major US waste treatment, management and remediation firm that global water-waste management giant Veolia has agreed to buy in an estimated$ $3B cash deal set to close in ...

New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon, came from closer to the sun. Artist’s impression of the collision between ...

If you've ever wondered why we are here, then you can thank Jupiter for part of the answer. A new study from Rice University suggests that if it weren't for the gas giant, the Earth would have ...