A startup company wants to establish mining operations on the moon to extract a rare isotope needed for future quantum computers and nuclear fusion reactors.And according to one of its scientific ...

A startup called Interlune — the founders of which include former Blue Origin top employees and an Apollo 17 astronaut — plan to send a harvester to the moon to collect material for the ...

Asteroid-mining startup AstroForge plans to launch its third mission, which will land on a metallic space rock, in 2025.

Seattle-based Interlune provided a triple-barreled update today on its progress toward mining helium-3 on the moon and returning that resource to Earth. The startup joined Vermeer Corp., ...

US-based start up Interlune has unveiled helium-3 harvestor prototype for a novel moon-mining machine.Rob Meyerson, co-founder and CEO of the Seattle-based startup Interlune said: When you're ...

Seattle startup Interlune's newly unveiled machine is designed to churn up 110 tons (100 metric tons) of moon dirt per hour to harvest helium-3, a fuel for future fusion reactors.

California-based startup AstroForge launched its Odin spacecraft on February 26 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The probe was headed toward a small asteroid to scan it for valuable metals, in service ...

Space How a start-up plans to mine the moon for a rare form of helium. A private moon mission planned for 2027 will be the first step towards commercial lunar mining of rare and expensive helium-3 ...

Mining the moon for water, helium-3, and rare earth elements could become a multibillion-dollar industry in the near future, but astronomers warn it risks coming at the expense of scientific discovery ...

Asteroid-mining startup AstroForge is making waves with its plan to land on a near-Earth asteroid in 2025.The company announced the expedition on Tuesday (August 20), also revealing that it has ...

Orbital Mining Corporation, a Golden-based space mining startup founded by two Colorado School of Mines graduate students, has landed a $500,000 award from NASA’s Watts on the Moon Challenge for ...