Helium-3 is one of the rarest and most valuable isotopes on Earth, with reported prices of up to US$18.7 million per kilogram, more than 100,000 times the price of common helium (helium-4). Against ...

The 2026 helium shortage is structurally different: the US reserve is gone, Qatar supply disrupted, and Canada emerges as a ...

For the first time, researchers from the PRISMA + Cluster of Excellence have determined the charge radius of helium-3 and thus also the exact difference to the radius of helium-4. This precision ...

Forget about harvesting these rare isotopes from space: A recent announcement from Pulsar Helium has found measurable levels of helium-3 beneath the ground of northern Minnesota. Pulsar Helium's ...

Interlune, a startup with plans to harvest helium-3 from the moon, has won a NASA contract to develop a payload to test ways ...

Scientists at the world’s largest stellarator facility, Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X), have successfully generated high-energy helium-3 ions for the first time. “In the world’s largest stellarator facility, ...