Rocks

In the summer of 2017, Joshua Miller, then a student at Augustana College in Illinois, visited a field research camp in Wyoming and picked up some stones. Rounded at the edges and the size of small fists, they were out of place in the…

China may have been a lag behind the moon, but when its capsule filled with lunar rocks and earth returned to earth early Thursday, it set the stage for a new space race for decades to come. This time it will be a competition for resources…