Case in point, Helsinki-based cryogenics company Bluefors signed an agreement with space commercialization startup Interlune ...

A new venture is preparing to test the limits of lunar exploration with an ambitious plan to mine the Moon for helium-3, a ...

U.S.–German partnership bridges space mining and quantum computing to build the world’s first lunar-derived quantum supply chain. SCOTTSDALE, AZ, UNITED STATES ...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., July 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- LH3M has reached a defining milestone: the issuance of five U.S. patents covering the full architecture for detecting, extracting, and refining ...

One of the next private companies to attempt a moon landing in the new year will be the Japanese iSpace, due for a launch no earlier than January 2025. Its first attempt met with failure in April 2023 ...

While private companies try to get space tourism off the ground, another lunar endeavor is now in the offing: moon mining. Interlune, a startup founded by two former Blue Origin employees, wants to ...

Jonah Kaplan is an award-winning journalist who has built a strong reputation for his balanced reporting, thoughtful interviews, and deeply researched coverage of high-impact issues affecting 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 ...

To whom does the moon belong, and do we really want something we see most nights ruined by the same, greedy capitalists who have mostly ruined terrestrial skies? If they want to mine an asteroid, I ...

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, ...