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

Normal helium, which is 700,000 times more common than helium-3, is called helium-4 because it has two protons and two neutrons. Whereas helium-4 is a common product of the decay of radioactive ...

These rocks contain unusually high isotopic ratios of helium-3 to helium-4. “Unlike helium-4, which is produced through radioactivity, helium-3 is primordial and not produced in planetary interiors,” ...

Initial laboratory analysis of gas samples from Jackson-4 showed a helium concentrationup to 1.18% (not air corrected) and 85.93% CO2 (and 12.89% nitrogen) which is in line with expectations.