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, ...

Tanzania-focused explorer raises £8.1m to advance Rukwa Basin drilling, positioning primary helium outside Strait of Hormuz exposure amid constrained, geopolitically sensitive markets.

A U.S. manufacturer is hoping to begin mining helium on the moon. It would be a first step in private industry profiting from ...

Private companies are no longer content to sell rockets and satellites to governments. They now want to dig into the Moon itself, betting that lunar soil could become the feedstock for a new off‑world ...

Vermeer Corp. in Iowa aims to mine helium-3 on the moon, highlighting burgeoning private industry interest in space ...

NASA is preparing for Artemis II, which will send four astronauts around the Moon. The mission will test Orion’s life-support, navigation, and communication systems in preparation for future lunar ...

PELLA, Iowa – Interest in space exploration is growing following the successful Artemis II mission around the moon, and one ...

NASA’s Artemis missions are laying groundwork for lunar colonies to mine helium-3 that could power fusion reactors and quantum computers.

The vision of mining space for resources is no longer science fiction. The moon's proximity to Earth and the presence of precious resources make it an increasingly attractive prospect for exploitation ...

Pella-based Vermeer is exploring how to mine helium from the moon to be used on Earth.