BENGALURU (Reuters) - Two NASA astronauts aboard Boeing's Starliner will stay on the International Space Station for months because of a faulty propulsion system whose problems included helium leaks.

The price of helium shot up six years ago and more than a dozen wildcatters — risk-taking prospectors who drill exploratory wells — headed to northeastern Arizona with the hope of striking it rich.

A helium exploration company is expanding its search for the buoyant gas in northern Minnesota, sinking 10 new wells to determine if there’s enough to bottle and sell. Thomas Abraham-James, the CEO of ...

Kids may know that balloons are bad for wildlife. This is because, when it’s filled with helium, a balloon can travel many miles into the sky before it loses the ability to float. When it falls back ...

The next time you pick up balloons for your big party, remember the helium gas in those balloons is destined for the stars. Helium is so light that it easily escapes Earth’s gravity, and all helium ...

The feasibility of moon mining is not yet proven, but the future of supercomputing may depend on the ability to extract ...

A cryogenics company called Bluefors needs ten thousand liters of helium-3 from the Moon to be delivered each year from 2028 ...

A commodity by dictionary definition is something useful or valued, but here’s one irreplaceable raw material that is hard to transport, has many more uses than you might think, and is often ...

Interlune is developing robots to harvest a valuable gas on the lunar surface that could have a big impact on Earth.

Finnish cryocooler manufacturer Bluefors has signed an agreement to secure a long-term supply of helium-3 harvested from the ...