A startup wants to mine the moon for helium. Helium-3 is needed for nuclear reactors, quantum computers, and more. By Andrew Paul. Published Mar 17, 2025 12:58 PM EDT ...

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How a start-up plans to mine the moon for a rare form of helium. A private moon mission planned for 2027 will be the first step towards commercial lunar mining of rare and expensive helium-3.

Interlune's key technology is a process to extract gas from the moon. It won't be easy. While there's a lot of the stuff, perhaps 1 million metric tons, the helium-3 is spread across the lunar ...

Additionally, the US Department of Energy has agreed to purchase 3 liters of helium-3 harvested from the Moon, no later than April 2029. As we wrote in 2024 , Helium-3 is a stable isotope of ...

Meet Starpath, a startup that wants to make it possible for you to live on Mars one day.. Starpath is building robots that it hopes will be able to autonomously mine liquid oxygen from the moon ...

With its incredible mass and lift, SpaceX's Starship is already transforming mission planning. Case in point: Voyager & Airbus will launch their private space station Starlab on Starship -- in a ...

They found that out of around 1.3 million craters on the moon with a diameter greater than a kilometre, nearly 6500 were made by asteroids containing commercial quantities of platinum.

In April 2023, ispace's first lander crashed on the Moon due to a similar altitude measurement problem. The spacecraft thought it was on the surface of the Moon, but was actually firing its engine ...

Imagine you’ve worked 12 hours in hot and dirty conditions. Some of your co-workers have collapsed or been injured. You wish you could just get another job. But you can’t. You’re stuck in space.