Scientists have identified a hidden deep-Earth pattern that may reveal where rare earth deposits form. The study links ...

A new atlas charts the global distribution of unusual, critical-metal-bearing igneous rocks, finding that they often form ...

If scaled up, this method could easily address the biggest issues in lithium mining, as well as the looming supply crisis for the valuable element.

Scientists have created a global “treasure map” for rare earth elements by uncovering where the strange volcanic rocks that ...

Between 1969 and 1972, NASA’s Apollo missions carried back 382 kilograms of lunar rock and soil, giving scientists their first physical evidence of another world. Those samples redefined how Earth and ...

One recent morning near the mouth of a canyon in southwest Colorado Springs, Christine Siddoway placed a few peculiar rocks in a parking lot and a dozen strangers gathered around. “That’s pretty,” one ...