There are moments when policy collides with geology, and when it does, fortunes can shift overnight. The decision by the US ...

Sotheby’s New York will auction a 54-pound Martian meteorite and a juvenile Ceratosaurus skeleton during Geek Week 2025. The ...

A rare Martian meteorite discovered in the Sahara Desert in 2023 represents 6.5% of all known Martian material on Earth and ...

The Australian Strategic Institute described this moment as “a once-in-a-century brain gain opportunity.” In the mid-20th ...

Sotheby's is putting some rare items up for auction, including what it calls the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth.

Chinese traders are circumventing China’s export ban on critical minerals like antimony, gallium, and germanium by rerouting ...

The U.S. is opening its first new Wyoming coal mine in decades to extract both coal and critical rare earth metals, inching ...

The U.S. government is now pouring real money into recycled electronics to cut its reliance on China, after the Pentagon ...

As rare earth supply chains are disrupted by tariffs and other trade barriers with China, e-waste recycling is growing as a solution to metals shortages.

Nestled in the heart of Siren, Wisconsin, where pine trees outnumber people and lakes dot the landscape like scattered ...

America is taking on China in the race to the bottom of the sea, hoping that new mining techniques will help break Beijing’s ...

Research on the ISS helped scientists tackle problems we can’t solve on Earth, from human biology to fire behavior and ...