A US startup is looking to our closest satellite to fill a resources gap here on Earth. Helium-3 is rare on terra firma, but ...

But despite the hype, our knowledge of these “abundant” lunar resources is surprisingly thin. While lunar resources will likely support future scientific and governmental missions, large-scale, ...

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,” says Interlune co-founder and CTO Gary Lai. This ...

The helium isotope has a great deal of applications. It can be used in weapons detection systems, to cool down quantum computers, in medical imaging and, last but not least, clean fusion energy.

A Rare Helium Surge Unlike Anything Seen Before The NASA/ESA Solar Orbiter captured the historic surge of ³He, a rare isotope of helium typically found at a ratio of just 1 per 2,500 compared to ...

This isotope is found at a ratio of about one per 2,500 helium-4 ions, the latter being the common version of helium. The sun just released a burst of a rare form of helium known as helium-3 (3 He).

Magna Petra has developed a technology to extract helium 3 from lunar soil that “promises energy efficient isotope extraction and collection with minimal impact to the lunar surface.” ...

Scientists source solar emissions with largest-ever concentration of rare helium isotope. ScienceDaily . Retrieved May 30, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 04 / 250409114846.htm ...

The Department of Energy is granting $365,000 to advance new technology to separate helium-3 from domestic ... to help advance technology for a rare isotope on Earth — with potential lunar ...