A research team at King's College London has isolated a new form of aluminum—a highly abundant metal, that could provide a ...

Scientists detected a lithium spike nearly 60 miles above Earth and traced it to a Falcon 9 rocket re-entry, raising concerns.

A fungus aboard the ISS extracted palladium from meteorite rock, hinting at future space mining powered by living microbes.

When dinosaur fossils surface at a site, it is often not possible to tell how many millions of years ago their bones were ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array , astronomers have investigated 70 ...

Actinides are a group of heavy, radioactive elements that include uranium, plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium and ...

An experiment on board the ISS tested the use of microorganisms to mine asteroids in the microgravity environment.

A sharp rally in the price of rare earths has propelled the market above the floor price guaranteed by the U.S. government in ...

This is the first observational evidence that re-entering space debris leaves a detectable, human-caused chemical fingerprint ...

Scientists at Rice University and the University of Houston have created a powerful new material by guiding bacteria to grow cellulose in aligned patterns, resulting in sheets with the strength of ...