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 ...

Astronomers around the world have confirmed over 6,000 exoplanets, a milestone reached in September 2025. Billions more are waiting to be discovered.

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 ...

Cemeteries are usually associated with the dead, but for one endangered species, a graveyard may yet be the key to its long-term survival. The BBC reported that researchers have been pleasantly ...