Shares of Australian rare earths miners, including Lynas and Iluka Resources , soared on Friday after U.S.-based MP Materials ...

In the chaos of war, there’s nothing to stop Chinese firms from ravaging the landscape and extracting the minerals, which end ...

As Earth spins faster than it has in decades, atomic clocks are catching the difference, and shorter days are on the horizon.

On July 9, 2025, scientists at the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) reported that the Earth ...

Shares of the little-known mining company soared on Thursday on news that the Pentagon would become the largest shareholder.

When the moon is positioned farther from Earth's equator and closer to the poles, its pull on the planet becomes weaker. With ...

Ever been late because you misread a clock? Sometimes, the "clocks" geologists use to date events can also be misread.

But with atomic clocks tracking the Earth’s rotational speed so closely that once every year and a half or so, the ...

The Defense Department is buying $400 million of stock in rare-earth mining company MP Materials as it seeks to boost ...

Normally, younger rocks are deposited above older ones, forming predictable geologic layers. In the North Sea, this process ...

The European Parliament condemned China on Thursday over its export restrictions on rare earths and insisted the European ...

July 9 was unusually short thanks to changes in how fast the Earth is spinning. But two other days this summer are expected ...