The unusually warm section of the Earth’s mantle beneath Oman sparked curiosity about hidden plumes that shift known ideas of ...

G7 leaders unveiled a new action plan to secure global supplies of critical minerals essential for clean energy, defense, and digital technology, according to Benzinga. The plan aims to build ...

Mercury doesn't give up its secrets easily. The smallest planet in our solar system is also one of the most extreme—a ...

Jezero Crater, once a lake bed some 3.5 billion years ago, has become the focus of NASA’s search for signs of past life. It’s ...

No one expected these glittering bits among the gray lunar dust back then. The beads, smaller than grains of sand, formed ...

Bottled waters from small, pristine sources are attracting a lot of buzz, with tastings, sommeliers and even water cellars.

Tiny glass beads from Apollo missions reveal Moon's ancient volcanic eruptions through sparkling mineral coatings.

A ‘ghost plume’ identified deep in the mantle beneath Oman suggests there may be more heat flowing out of Earth’s core than ...

In 2004, researchers from the mining group Rio Tinto found this peculiar mineral in Jadar (pronounced "Yadar"), Serbia. Its ...

Green energy could take a major leap forward if we start to rely on the rare mineral jadarite, researchers claim in a new ...

China dominates the global rare earths industry—and it’s not even close. A fight is already underway to lay claim to this ...

The Apollo astronauts didn't know what they'd find when they explored the surface of the moon, but they certainly didn't ...