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

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 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 ...

JOHANNESBURG, March 13, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The long-awaited event of filling a helium container with liquid has now taken place, an achievement the Company is pleased to announce. It is being ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Under pressure Illustration of how helium atoms (pink spheres) are incorporated within a face-centred cubic iron lattice (blue spheres). (Courtesy: University of Tokyo) Helium deep with the Earth ...

And there have been some developments recently. Six of Helium One’s last eight stock exchange announcements have been about the American mine. Firstly, in the middle of December, it was reported ...

Oil and gas have never been produced in Minnesota. With the discovery near Babbitt of what is believed to be the richest helium deposit in the world and rising interest in the state’s potential ...