The Metals Company, based in Canada, created a U.S. subsidiary to mine Clarion Clipperton, and received a major boost in ...

The fossil, estimated to be about 70 million years old, was buried 763 feet below the surface and unearthed because of a ...

Greenland’s ice-covered landscape looks like an immovable block on satellite maps. Yet the story beneath its center suggests ...

Study finds 3-billion-year-old crystals on Mauritius tied to hidden microcontinent “Mauritia,” supporting 19th-century legends of a lost land beneath the Indian Ocean.

The payoffs are real: ancient biochemistry could spawn new drugs or enzymes that work in extreme cold. Yet each core sample ...