NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4, which was initially flagged as a potential threat, poses no significant danger to ...

Imagine floating in space, gazing on a frozen white orb. The ball hangs in the void, lonely and gleaming in the light from ...

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...

YR4 has now been reassigned to Torino Scale Level Zero, the level for 'No Hazard' as additional tracking of its orbital path ...

The space rock caused quite a stir after astronomers first spotted it last year on a trajectory bringing it uncomfortably ...

The 2024 YR4 asteroid, which is nearly the size of a football field, now has roughly a 0.004% chance of hitting Earth in ...

Rare earth metals are making headlines as demand rises for products from smartphones to wind turbines, and as governments ...

Glaciers once inched toward the sea, gouging rocks. When the ice masses melted, they infused oceans with nutrients that may ...

Greenland’s Ice Sheet will surely continue its unprecedented melt.  But will the melting ice expose more rock that might push ...

Russia says it is open for economic cooperation with the United States, including on energy and mining rare earth minerals.

Ukraine holds trillions of dollars worth of rare earth elements, which are critical for the modern high-tech economy.