U.S. efforts to break China's dominance of the rare earths market and to drive investment in its own industry have moved up a ...

India is estimated to have the world’s fifth-largest reserves of rare earth minerals – mainly monazite. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

One lucky bidder will soon fork over millions of dollars to take home NWA 16788, a 54-pound (24-kilogram) Martian meteorite.

Marine biologist Carrie Newell photographed four blue whales — the largest animals on Earth — 3 miles off Depoe Bay.