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, ...

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, ...

GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by Alan Boyle on Mar 13, 2024 at 2:20 ...

The Moon is drawing new attention—not for space exploration, but for resource extraction. A rare isotope called helium-3, embedded in its surface dust, has become a focus for governments, tech ...

Lunar exploration could soon take on a new dimension with the extraction of a rare resource: helium-3. Several space companies are considering transforming our satellite into a mining site, but the ...

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 ...

It has been a long-time dream of the human race to be able to harvest resources from other places in the solar system, but we're only now getting to a point, technologically speaking, when we can ...

On May 5, 2025, Interlune — a Seattle-based startup — announced a new agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE): they’ll deliver helium-3, harvested from the moon, to Earth by 2029. The press ...

Bluefors, the world's leading manufacturer of dilution refrigerators, has entered into a groundbreaking partnership with space resource company Interlune. Interlune's first-of-its-kind helium-3 ...