A startup company wants to establish mining operations on the moon to extract a rare isotope needed for future quantum ...
Helium-3 (He-3) on the moon's surface has drawn attention for decades. In 1939, a paper first noted the presence of Helium-3 ...
A private moon mission planned for 2027 will be the first step towards commercial lunar mining of rare and expensive helium-3 ...
The Sunbird nuclear fusion rocket concept has the potential to more than halve the time to travel to Mars and cut travel time ...
A rare isotope from the early solar system may be locked in Earth's core, revealing insights into planetary formation ...
Fusion on the other hand does not create any long-lived radioactive nuclear waste. A fusion reactor produces helium, which is an inert gas. It also produces and consumes tritium within the plant in a ...