The forests and wetlands in northern Minnesota stored helium-3, a fuel expected to be found as a resource on the Moon’s ...

Preparing comprehensive safety measures—covering dust control, system redundancies and mental health—is vital for the success ...

Two of Blue Origin’s earliest employees, former President Rob Meyerson and Chief Architect Gary Lai, have started a company that seeks to extract helium-3 from the lunar surface, return it to Earth, ...

The time when we humans will begin exploiting the resources of other worlds is nearly upon us. Because the closest and easiest target for such endeavors is the Moon, it is probably from there that ...

Humanity has long considered the Moon a place of wonder and possibility. Now it’s being talked about as a potential source for one of humankind’s most unusual and valuable materials: Helium-3. Locked ...

GOLDEN, Colorado — Interlune, a Seattle-based company of former Blue Origin technologists, has set its sights on the moon’s supply of Helium-3 — a rare heavy isotope deposited into lunar regolith by ...

Interlune is developing robots to harvest a valuable gas on the lunar surface that could have a big impact on Earth. In the lobby of Interlune, a 3-foot-wide tabletop diorama shows an idyllic, ...

It has been a long-time dream of the human race to be able to harvest resources from other places in the solar system, but we're only now getting to a point, technologically speaking, when we can ...

A US startup is looking to our closest satellite to fill a resources gap here on Earth. Helium-3 is rare on terra firma, but is thought to be abundant in the regolith of the Moon. Interlune has now ...

An artist’s conception shows a rocket with a capsule containing helium-3 heading back to Earth from the moon’s surface. (Interlune Illustration) Seattle-based Interlune provided a triple-barreled ...