According to NASA, asteroids are inactive bodies made of all the rocky, dusty and metallic materials left behind from the formation of our solar system. They are mainly concentrated within the main asteroid belt, orbiting around the sun between the paths of Mars and Jupiter, though some may end up in the inner solar system.

In a win for President Trump's energy agenda, the first new U.S. rare-earth mine in 70 years broke ground this month in Wyoming.

Rare earth elements sustain the Information Age, and securing a supply of these metals has become a matter of national and economic security. They're ubiquitous in our smart technologies, high-performance materials and industrial catalysts.

TRACERS will launch for a low-Earth orbit of 367 miles (590 kilometers) on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket alongside three additional NASA missions. These include the Athena EPIC (Economical Payload Integration Cost) SmallSat, which will demonstrate a new way of more efficiently placing remote-sensing (or rather, Earth-observing) instruments into orbit.

Travel Journalist Qasa Alom visits Lake Bacalar in Mexico, famous for its brilliant seven shades of blue water. But that's not the only thing it's known for. The lake is home to Stromatolites or living fossils that may look like any old rock,

This 2023 astronaut photo shows three glaciers merging into a single massive ice mass in the Karakoram mountains. The stripy glaciers have gained ice in recent decades, despite the effects of human-caused climate change.

Another intergral part of the Alien franchise is that, yes, the aliens are brutal killers. But the humans who are trying to capture them are often worse. That’s why Alien: Earth will feature an equally important story centered on a technological race, personified by those hybrid characters.

A NEW Earth-sized planet has been discovered in a faraway constellation – and it would kill any astronaut who dare travel there. Some 117.4 light-years away from Earth, scientists have