For many years, planetary scientists have believed that water-rich meteorites arriving late in Earth's history (OK, the time ...

Rare earth and critical minerals stocks cratered Thursday following a controversial Reuters report on price floors.

Chart: The Economist Brazil holds nearly a quarter of the world’s known deposits of rare earths, second only to China (see chart). Besides prime geology, the country boasts a sturdy extractive ...

Rare earth stocks are surging as U.S. policy shifts and China asserts itself. Here are five rare-earth stocks poised to ...

For the Moon itself, the story is different. The Moon has far less water than Earth, but for such a dry world it’s important.

It was long thought, up until recently, that asteroids and comets delivered Earth's oceans during the very early Solar System ...

Planetary scientists analyzing oxygen isotopes in lunar soil from the Apollo mission sites conclude that meteorite bombardment over 4 billion years could only have delivered a tiny fraction of Earth’s ...

The capital infusion will help USA Rare Earth advance its plan for a magnet manufacturing plant and a mine at a rare earth ...

For a long time, scientists assumed that Earth's water was delivered by asteroids and comets billions of years ago. This coincided with the Late Heavy Bombardment (ca. 4.1 to 3.8 billion years ago), a ...

A new NASA study of its Apollo lunar soils clarifies the Moon’s record of meteorite impacts and timing of water delivery.

A new NASA study using Apollo lunar soil samples challenges a long-held theory. It suggests meteorites were not the primary ...

Clues buried in Moon dust are helping scientists revisit one of the oldest questions: where did Earth’s water come from? For ...