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, ...

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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 ...

Earth-based helium-3, pulled from tritium decay and terrestrial gas wells, costs far less to extract today than digging it out of lunar regolith. Tritium supply is capped by nuclear weapons stockpiles ...

"The high-rate excavation needed to harvest helium-3 from the moon in large quantities has never been attempted before, let alone with high efficiency." When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Iron Range is sitting atop another massive extraction resource. Who will benefit? Illustration by Getty Images. BABBITT — When ...

Lunar mining will involve autonomous robots and small human crews, requiring advanced safety protocols for remote operations and emergency response. Key hazards include lunar dust, vacuum leaks, ...