You’d be surprised to know that a company named Interlune has already raised $15 million to achieve the goal of extracting helium-3 from the moon and bringing it to Earth. Interlune is founded ...

“We do mining operations on Earth, such as copper mines that ... the short-term while advancing technology to harvest Helium-3 on the moon, which Meyerson said is their long-term strategy.

The isotope helium-3 is to be used in nuclear fusion and in quantum computers. The US company Interlune wants to mine it on the moon. Helium-3, which consists of two protons and one neutron, is ...

Seattle-based Interlune officially lifted the curtain today on its plans to build a robotic harvester that could extract helium-3 from moon dirt and send it back to Earth for applications ranging ...

The 2020s have already seen many lunar landing attempts, although several landing craft have crashed or toppled over. With all the ...

As the demand for cleaner, more efficient energy sources continue to grow, the moon may light the way to fuel life on Earth. NASA has estimated that there are between 1 and 3 million tons of helium-3 ...

If gold were present on Earth in such amounts ... said that theoretically the amount of Helium-3 found on the Moon would keep the world energy industry going for at least 250 years.

There are platinum group and rare earth metals on the moon, as well as Helium-3, which is a potential fuel for nuclear fusion. Those resources, he said, could help stimulate a lunar economy that ...