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.

The Moon has all the materials we need to make everything we have here on Earth, but it lacks the complex infrastructure that has take well over 100 years to create to be able to mine, process and ...

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.

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 ...

Retired Air Force Lieutenant General Steven Kwast (pictured) claimed China is mining a rare and powerful element from the moon that could give them the upper hand in the new space race.

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.