Scientists have discovered helium-3 beneath northern Minnesota, a rare isotope once thought to exist mainly on the Moon.

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

A giant, gaping hole that opened up in the Sun's atmosphere has been identified as the source of a surprising abundance of a rare isotope of helium. In late October 2023, the Sun was recorded belching ...

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 ...

SEATTLE, May 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Interlune, a natural resources company, today announced that the U.S. Department of Energy Isotope Program (DOE IP) has agreed to purchase three liters of helium-3 ...

They now want to dig into the Moon itself, betting that lunar soil could become the feedstock for a new off‑world economy. At ...

Scientists are tracing ancient helium trapped beneath South Africa’s gold fields, revealing how rare gas survives for ...

The above results were based on the previous studies on the hydrogen isotope permeation of wall materials and structural materials, and realized the quantitative analysis of the effect of helium ...

Oceanic island hotspots — Hawaii and Iceland — are the final destinations of elemental isotopes from the beginnings of Earth, in concentrations found nowhere else on Earth’s crust. Until now, it was ...

Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego used an unprecedented technique to detect that levels of helium are rising in the atmosphere, resolving an issue that has lingered ...

- Combining these two highly complementary businesses aims to create a global leader in the production of critical and strategically important materials, including electronic gases such as helium, ...