Global supply chains are already reeling from the impact of China's rare earth export controls, but an even bigger critical ...

Low environmental standards helped China become the world’s low-cost producer of rare earths, but Beijing was also focused on ...

Scientists say they’ve confirmed Earth’s inner core has been slowing down. Here’s what it could mean — and why the topic has been the subject of fierce debate.

[Image credit: Kotaku] Metal vocalists are some of the coolest people on Earth for a variety of reasons, but one of the main reasons has to be how we're simply amazed that night after night ...

Two near-Earth asteroids that rich in metals, including one that could be worth $11 trillion, may eventually be mined for their resources, scientists said in a new study.

Called metal-rich near-Earth asteroids, these rare, hefty mineral deposits measure over a mile wide. The one reckoned to be a metal motherlode is labeled 1986 DA, and the other, 2016 ED85.

Physical Characterization of Metal-rich Near-Earth Asteroids 6178 (1986 DA) and 2016 ED85. The Planetary Science Journal , 2021; 2 (5): 205 DOI: 10.3847/PSJ/ac235f Cite This Page : ...

In the Earth (see image below right), the liquid metal that makes up the outer core passes through a magnetic field, which causes an electric current to flow within the liquid metal.

Earth grew to its final size through one last major collision with another Mars-sized object. This last collision, also known as the “moon-forming impact,” was so large that—in addition to adding lots ...