China’s promise to delay its newest restrictions on the export of the rare earths that are crucial to many high-tech products for one year as part of a trade agreement creates an opportunity for the U.

President Trump's dealmaking is coming in handy as he inks rare earth mineral ventures with Japan and Australia with more likely in the pipeline.

The U.S. doesn’t produce the minerals and metals needed for renewable energy, microchips or military technology. Authorities want to change that as quickly as possible.

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three dimensions.

The U.S. government and private financiers are pouring money into critical minerals, believing China won’t ever be a reliable supplier again.

The climate is "continuing to shift in a very dangerous direction"—and action is needed—Christopher Wolf told Newsweek.

New research challenges the idea that the hemispheres' matching brightness is a fundamental property of the planet

As the third confirmed interstellar object to pass through our solar system, 3I/ATLAS is prime for new discoveries. It was first identified in July and will travel closest to Earth in December.

Homo sapiens is the most successful mammalian species in Earth history, and it’s not even close. The species thrives on nearly every continent, in a variety of adverse conditions, and outnumbers the second-place contender—the rat—by at least a cool billion.