The find is believed to contain the largest deposit of medium and heavy REEs in China, fueling the country's high-tech ambitions.

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Indonesia has cut nickel production quotas in a move Benchmark says could leave domestic smelters crying out for supply.

By combining data from NASA’s IRAS and NuSTAR telescopes, scientists have uncovered more hidden supermassive black holes than earlier estimates suggested. Their findings indicate that over a third of ...

"NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission already is rewriting the textbook on what we understand about the beginnings of our solar system," the statement reads ...

"Our measurements imply that the supermassive black hole mass is 10% of the stellar mass in the galaxies we studied." ...

Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling ...

A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, reveals that evaporated water left a briny broth where salts and minerals ...

The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth ...