The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...

From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from the cacti and creosote of the Sonoran desert like a gleaming oasis, a colony of ...

Fast-forward to today: we’ve gone from one lonely planet to a catalog of thousands. The pace is accelerating. In 2015, NASA’s Kepler telescope had confirmed its 1,000th exoplanet. By 2022, the tally ...

Hot, small and old—exoplanet TOI-561 b is just about the worst place to look for alien air. Scientists using JWST found it ...

China has moved to a favorable geopolitical stance, as one of its mines holds 470,000 tons and thus $200 billion. It's the ...

For decades, astronomers have wondered whether Earth-like planets are rare gems or commonplace across the stars. Recent ...

This brings us to the complexity of NASA's announcement. "Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by scientists from around the world, so no single planet is considered the 6,000th ...

Researchers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered water vapor in the atmosphere of planet K2-18b, located about ...

Astronomers have discovered "dust-shrouded supermassive black holes" in the early universe, less than 1 billion years after ...

MISSOULA, Mont., Sept. 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Montana Critical Metals Inc. ("MCM"), in affiliation with Heiser Partners Inc. and Human Powered Future PLLC, announced today that the State of Montana ...

New research has unveiled the potential for an atmosphere around an Earth-sized planet located approximately 40 light-years away. A team from the University of St Andrews has published a study on ...

JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – South Africa has delivered what is described as “an exceptionally pure rare earth product”, which has been optimised in a Johannesburg laboratory. The breakthrough is ...