On May 5, 2025, Interlune — a Seattle-based startup — announced a new agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE): they’ll deliver helium-3, harvested from the moon, to Earth by 2029.

A global helium shortage could burst the bubble for all the businesses that rely on the gas to lift weather balloons, large blimps, and, yes, the balloons at your kid’s birthday bash that make ...

New Era Helium, Inc. ("NEH," "New Era Helium" or the "Company"), an exploration and production company sourcing helium produced in association with the production of natural gas reserves within ...

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 ...

Global helium demand is expected to nearly double by 2035. The semiconductor industry is projected to increase its helium use fivefold in the next decade. Helium is primarily obtained as a ...

A helium reservoir with the highest concentrations ever seen could hold enough of the gas to address critical shortages in the U.S. affecting tech, medicine and space exploration. When you ...

It seemed like it would be so easy a few years ago. Rising demand and dwindling supply for helium — the nonflammable gas that lifts balloons and allows MRI machines to operate — caused prices ...

Welcome to the frontier of a new commodity rush. Helium exploration and development is an industry emerging from a supply shortage that has spanned a decade. Pulsar Helium Inc (Pulsar) is a ...

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 ...

Helium is crucial to all kinds of technologies, including MRI scanners and semiconductors. But it’s produced in only a few places. MIT Technology Review is celebrating our 125th anniversary with ...

But this time, it was the Federal Helium Reserve that was up for sale. For about 100 years, the government has stockpiled helium in underground caverns near Amarillo, Texas. Originally ...