When the balance in reflectivity shifts, “the whole circulation of the climate will shift in order to transport energy from the hemisphere that has a surplus to the one that has a deficit,” Soden says. This could influence ocean currents and the location of rainfall bands, which can have ramifications for water availability.

In the distant past, the solar system was rife with impacts and collisions. Millions of rocky objects zoomed chaotically through the system, smashing into each other in collisional cascades. Over time,

A rare encounter of two comets this week will have stargazers in awe after nearly a year of no easily seen comets.

Shares of Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. jumped as much as 25% after the US steelmaker posted stronger-than-expected earnings, disclosed a pact with another metal producer and said it’s evaluating whether rare earth minerals can be extracted from its mines.

A new study has revealed how phosphorus, a nutrient essential for photosynthesis, surged into ancient oceans and started Earth's first major rise in atmospheric oxygen more than 2 billion years ago.

A rare green comet known as C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) passes Earth for the first time in over 1,300 years, National Geographic said.

Cleveland-Cliffs CEO Lourenco Goncalves announced plans to explore rare earth mineral production at sites in Michigan and Minnesota amid China's export controls.

New research from Rice University suggests that the giant planet Jupiter reshaped the early solar system in dramatic ways, carving out rings and gaps that ultimately explain one of the longest-standing puzzles in planetary science: why many primitive meteorites formed millions of years after the first solid bodies.