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 ...

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

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 ...

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-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., ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

An illustration of ispace's Resilience lander. ispace Following its failed attempt to achieve a successful landing on the moon in 2023, there were high hopes that Japanese startup ispace would ...