There once was a dream of cities in space — vast cylindrical habitats, self-sufficient and populated by millions who would look down on the Earth from their lofty perch. Back in the 1970s, one serious ...

NASA's .50 caliber gas guns can fire at nearly 23,000 feet per second. The possibility of a large meteorite strike is a terrifying scenario with dramatic and deadly consequences, but a space station ...

A company establishing a manufacturing presence at Kennedy Space Center plans to use innovative Kevlar-like materials to build an expandable space habitat for low Earth orbit in a bid to answer NASA's ...

NASA has awarded six companies separate contracts worth up to $65 million combined to help the agency research concepts and develop ground prototypes for deep space habitats. The six companies will ...

Voyager Technologies and Max Space, a company working on expandable habitats, plan to work together to use that technology for lunar exploration.

The International Space Station was painstakingly assembled segment by segment, launched into orbit by many expensive and logistically complex rockets. Now there’s intense interest in a radically ...

You hate to see it, but the International Space Station can't stay in low-Earth orbit forever. It's set to burn up and splash down somewhere in the South Pacific in the early 2030s, but something has ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Project Hyperion competition winners dreamed up Chrysalis, a starship and space habitat that could make it to the planet Proxima b in just 400 years ...