Private companies are planning space stations designed for tourism, research, medicine, and deep space missions. From orbital ...

Russia has quietly taken a bold step toward solving one of human spaceflight’s oldest problems, securing a patent for a modular spacecraft that spins to create artificial gravity for crews on long ...

"What about putting people in a horizontally rotating habitat? There have been rotating habitats on Earth, to study the coriolis-effect problem. But they can only add some more G to the 1G that is ...

Engineers at Russia’s Energia Space Rocket Corporation, part of the state-run space agency Roscosmos, have proposed a new answer. According to a patent obtained by the Russian news agency TASS, the ...