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Shares of US rare earth and critical mineral miners surged on Thursday as China announced further restrictions on its own exports. In Europe, trade was tentative in the opening on Friday.

World Space Week 2025 casts a lens on life in space — here, we take a look at how astronauts traveling beyond Earth can affect their families.

Spoilers within for the Peacemaker season 2 ending, whether there's a Peacemaker season 3, and how it sets up the DCU's future

As strange interstellar objects like 3I/ATLAS approach with mysterious signals, Harvard scientists hypothesise a potential alien invasion in November 2025

We're not the only ones who see a baboon in this nebula photo, right?

A proposed constellation of satellites has astronomers very worried. Unlike satellites that reflect sunlight and produce light pollution as an unfortunate byproduct, the ones by US startup Reflect Orbital would produce light pollution by design.

Something remarkable just happened in the global resource chessboard — and it could turn into President Donald Trump's next ‘America First’ trade. When Beijing tightened its grip on rare earth exports this week, it didn't just rattle global supply chains — it lit a fire under USA Rare Earth Inc…

Critical Metals has surged nearly 120% this year on speculation that the Trump administration could take a direct stake in the company’s Greenland rare-earth mine, a move that could reshape U.S. mineral independence.

Shares of The Metals Company (NASDAQ:TMC) are rising Thursday afternoon, hitting a new 52-week high as investors flock to domestic rare earth and battery metal stocks. Here’s what you need to know.

Observations by a system of radio telescopes have offered the first visual evidence for the existence of black hole pairs. But vital follow-up observations are needed before we know for sure.

An astrophysicist interview underlines the growing risk of satellites, from the increasingly crowded skies, falling to Earth.