A startup company wants to establish mining operations on the moon to extract a rare isotope needed for future quantum ...

A private moon mission planned for 2027 will be the first step towards commercial lunar mining of rare and expensive helium-3 ...

Earth’s core could contain helium from the early solar system. The noble gas tucks into gaps in iron crystals under high pressure and temperature.

The diamond anvil crushed iron and helium together under conditions mimicking those inside the Earth, to create a new compound. These compounds remained stable when pressures were reduced.

The discovery that inert helium can form bonds with iron may reshape our understanding of Earth’s history. Researchers from ...

The discovery that helium and iron can mix at the temperatures and pressures found at the center of Earth could settle a long-standing debate over how our planet formed. Primordial helium from the ...

Scientists discover Earth may have huge quantities of helium trapped in its core after finding it can mix with iron under extreme heat and pressure. . | Credit: Yuri_Arcurs via Getty Images Primordial ...

"In this case, we crushed iron and helium together under about 5–55 gigapascals of pressure and at temperatures of 1,000 Kelvin to nearly 3,000 Kelvin. Those pressures correspond to roughly ...

These results suggest that similar reactions between helium and iron may have occurred within Earth’s core shortly after its formation, trapping much of the primordial helium-3 in the material that ...

A Pulsar Helium drill site as seen Jan. 13 near Babbitt ... which would be stored in tanks until they’re shipped away. The facility would have a relatively modest footprint on the ground ...

The two Nasa astronauts have been marooned at the International Space Station since June last year after multiple helium leaks incapacitated the thruster systems of their spacecraft – Boeing’s ...