Helium mining is the mechanism that powers the Helium network to provide global wireless technology for Internet-of-Things devices. Helium involves running a hotspot to provide coverage for ...

A commodity by dictionary definition is something useful or valued, but here’s one irreplaceable raw material that is hard to transport, has many more uses than you might think, and is often ...

Seattle-based Interlune announced $18 million in startup capital to begin harvesting helium-3 from the Moon. The private company hopes to expand its resource mining to additional rare metals found on ...

This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In October, the Bureau of Land Management finalized a new resource management ...

Quantum cryogenics manufacturer Bluefors is betting big on Interlune, a startup that aims to extract Helium-3 from the lunar ...

When people hear of a helium leak, they likely imagine a comical scenario involving party balloons and high-pitched voices. Yet scientists from the California Institute of Technology and the Woods ...

If humans sound like Minnie Mouse after inhaling helium, would an alligator squeak on the gas used to float balloons?

An office of the Bureau of Land Management, which supplies much of the country's crude helium, entered into sweetheart deals with a group of private refiners, potentially costing taxpayers more than ...

In a first for white dwarfs, the burnt-out cores of dead stars, astronomers have discovered that at least one member of this cosmic family is two-faced. One side of the white dwarf is composed of ...