A helium shortage might mean you can’t get the medical scans you need. Here’s why MRI machines need liquid helium to super-cool their magnets.

By harvesting helium-3, which is rare and limited in supply on Earth, Interlune could help change that calculus by deriving value from resources on the Moon. But many questions about the approach ...

Helium is crucial to all kinds of technologies, including MRI scanners and semiconductors. But it’s produced in only a few places.

Global helium production averaged about 160 million cubic feet between 2019 to 2023, according to the report. Demand for the gas is likely to rise five-fold in the semiconductor industry, the ...

Boeing's Starliner spacecraft landed uncrewed in a New Mexico desert late on Friday. Sign up here. Past missions have that have been affected by pesky helium leaks include ISRO's Chandrayaan 2 and ...

Helium is made up of two protons and two neutrons, and hydrogen is just one proton and no neutrons. So the fewer the neutrons available in the early universe, the less helium would be produced.

For a century, the U.S. Government-owned the largest helium reserve in the country, but the biggest exporters now are in Russia, Qatar and Tanzania. With this new discovery, Minnesota could be ...

New seismic data show that a helium reservoir discovered in February in northern Minnesota is larger than initial estimates indicated, inching the project closer to commercial extraction.