Methanol is metabolized into the natural gas methane by many microbes living under Earth’s surface, but its source has been unclear. It emerges that some bacteria convert formate molecules into ...

The Bennu discovery helps to illuminate how, early in the Solar System’s history, asteroids and other planetary building blocks were not just “lumps of stone and ice, but active ‘living’ objects”, ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...

New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...

Instead of relying on energy-hungry reactors to generate high temperatures and pressure, researchers are looking underground ...

4, 2025 — A groundbreaking study on the freezing of water droplets suspended in air sheds light on a key process in Earth's water ... will see reliance on natural gas plummet, reducing ...

Discover a new, eco-friendly method of synthesizing ammonia using Earth's natural geological processes, potentially transforming fertilizer production and reducing the chemical industry's carbon ...

The riches thought to lie beneath Greenland's icy terrain have been coveted for more than a century. But how easy are they to ...

In northeastern France, a groundbreaking discovery has unveiled a vast reservoir of hydrogen hidden beneath the Earth's ...

The U.S. president’s relentless pursuit of raw materials is storing up trouble for Greenland, but could well be good news for ...

"Think of it as a 'time machine' that lets us explore how Earth’s climate has responded to natural ... under human influence in the future. Understanding these dynamics is crucial for predicting the ...

“America will be a manufacturing nation once again, and we have something that no other manufacturing nation will ever have, the largest amount of oil and gas of any country on Earth, and we are ...