In the year since President Donald Trump signed an executive order promising to create a deep-sea mining industry from ...

The deep sea mining landscape has seen significant activity across multiple fronts in the first quarter of 2026. This briefing summarizes recent key developments at the international level and among ...

The Moon is shifting from a distant backdrop to a contested frontier, as governments and companies race to turn its ice, metals and rare isotopes into strategic assets. The stakes are no longer just ...

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President Trump’s April executive order aims to accelerate U.S. deep-sea mining, stockpile critical minerals, and reduce reliance on China for rare earths and battery metals. Companies like TMC The ...

As demand for critical minerals surges around the world, countries are debating whether to mine the untapped deep-sea reserves of cobalt, copper and manganese, miles below the surface. But a growing ...

On May 2, the Trump Administration proposed a 24% budget cut for NASA. It would slash funding for science while setting billions aside for initiatives to send humans to the moon and Mars. New ...

The debate pits those who stress the need to wean the United States off the Chinese near-monopoly on rare earth minerals against those who underscore the immense environmental costs of mining the ...

This screenshot from CCTV (China Central Television) shows China’s first moon rover Yutu, or Jade Rabbit, in an image taken by the camera on the Chang’e 3 moon lander, Dec. 15, 2013. China does not ...