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In a first for the Perseverance rover, it appears to have found an iron-nickel meteorite near the Jezero Crater.

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A machine-learning-enhanced approach to chemical analysis is drastically expanding the chemical record of life on Earth, and ...

Washington, DC— Pairing cutting-edge chemistry with artificial intelligence, a multidisciplinary team of scientists found ...

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A new LEGO Ideas set is coming to life as fans can leave that dirt behind and pick up some bricks with the LEGO Ideas Mineral Collection. The set features 880 pieces and is designed for adult ...

Rare rocks buried deep beneath central Australia have revealed the origins of one of the world’s most promising new deposits of niobium — a metal vital for producing high-strength steel and clean ...

During the California Gold Rush of the mid-1800s, it was common to see people dig through rock formations and sieve through streams in hopes of finding some of that precious gold. But while it was a ...