As demand for rare earth elements increases, the United States is strengthening its domestic supply chain. Ana Inés Torres is ...

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Rare earth elements are critical to many industries—used in electric motors, medical imaging and diagnostics, oil and gas ...

A giant impact crater on the moon may contain primordial pieces of the lunar mantle and remnants of an ancient magma ocean, ...

The term 'rare earth' dates to an 18th‑century Swedish mine and survives mainly out of habit. In truth, these 17 metals are ...

Seattle-based Interlune has won two contracts to sell thousands of liters of helium-3 excavated from the Moon’s surface and ...

A research team led by Prof. Di Kaichang from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of ...