Danielle KayeBusiness reporterwildpixel/Getty ImagesThe Trump administration has sought to boost US production of minerals that are essential to everything from smartphones to defence technologies, in a bid to loosen ...

Georgina RannardScience correspondentNASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, R. Hurt (Caltech/IPAC)An artist's drawing of what the new planet might look like. Our Sun is the small dot of light between the ...

Jonathan JosephsBusiness reporter, BBC NewsBloomberg/GettyThe US government is to become the biggest shareholder in the country's only operational rare earths mine.It is also going to take a series of ...

Peter Hoskins & Natalie ShermanBBC NewsGetty ImagesTalks aimed at cooling tensions between the US and China have ended in a "deal", according to US President Donald Trump.He said China ...

The inner core of Earth may have changed shape in the past 20 years, according to a group of scientists.The inner core is usually thought to be shaped like ...