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A new study suggests dark matter could subtly tint or polarize light, leaving faint color clues that next-generation telescopes might detect.

President Donald Trump's administration is likely to take stakes in more companies following China’s latest rare earth export limitations, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday. 

Excessive volatility returned to the market in a big way last week. The SP 500 dropped more than 4% Friday, following more tariff saber-rattling from the Trump administration. Major indices rebounded about halfway on Monday, but investors are now bracing for more trade war volatility. 

A small asteroid, called 2025 TP5, safely flew by our planet on Oct. 15 at about a quarter of the distance to the moon.

"What if actually we wanted the same things as our customers, and what if our goal was," Glyman told Fortune, "actually just help them spend less?"

Shares of USA Rare Earth Inc (NASDAQ:USAR) are trading lower Wednesday afternoon. With the stock up more than 140% over the past month, the sell-off appears to be due to profit-taking.

He's got a point

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent slammed Beijing's rare earth export curbs Wednesday as "China versus the world," vowing that Washington and its allies would "neither be commanded nor controlled."

Impulse Space — which was founded by Tom Mueller, SpaceX's second-ever employee — just announced that it plans to build a robotic moon lander to help open the lunar frontier.

Alien: Earth's Disney+ success could lead to a franchise return for a true legend

Satellite data reveal that a weak region in Earth's magnetic field has grown by an area roughly half the size of continental Europe in the last 10 years.