British engineers who are perfecting a technique for transforming moondust into oxygen have made a breakthrough that could shape the future of space exploration. Using specially designed pilot ...

The production of rare earth metals is a global $4 billion annual market that continues to grow as new electronics, computerized engines for aircraft, warships, electric automobiles, magnets and other ...

Iron ore constituted 93% of total metals mined, emphasizing its crucial role in steel production. Industrial metals like copper and aluminum made up 6.6% of the total, with China leading in aluminum ...

On Jan. 12, the Stanford Energy Seminar examined how new materials science research, including advanced characterization and AI tools, could help decarbonize metals production across the global supply ...

NASA has just launched its first rocket in the Artemis program, which will, among other things, take scientific experiments to produce metal on the Moon. In recent years, a number of businesses and ...

MaverickX, which was born in San Antonio and is moving to Austin this year, is built on a bacterium that dissolves rock as a ...

Some of the most coveted metals on the planet are not just expensive, they are almost unimaginably scarce in Earth's crust and in accessible ore deposits. Their rarity is rooted in deep planetary ...