While helium-3 is exceedingly rare on Earth, it’s plentiful on the Moon. But getting it won’t be simple. The race to harvest ...

It could be the key to establish a permanent presence there. The post Mining Company Says It’s Identified Hugely Valuable Material on Surface of the Moon appeared first on Futurism.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., July 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- LH3M has reached a defining milestone: the issuance of five U.S. patents covering the full architecture for detecting, extracting, and refining ...

U.S.–German partnership bridges space mining and quantum computing to build the world’s first lunar-derived quantum supply chain. SCOTTSDALE, AZ, UNITED STATES ...

While private companies try to get space tourism off the ground, another lunar endeavor is now in the offing: moon mining. Interlune, a startup founded by two former Blue Origin employees, wants to ...

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 ...

To whom does the moon belong, and do we really want something we see most nights ruined by the same, greedy capitalists who have mostly ruined terrestrial skies? If they want to mine an asteroid, I ...

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, ...

A budding startup called Interlune is trying to become the first private company to mine the moon’s natural resources and sell them back on Earth. Interlune will initially focus on helium-3 — a helium ...

Regardless, Meyerson said one reason that the use of helium-3 for commercial applications has not been widely explored is because it has not been available in quantity. Producing a steady supply of ...