The concept of using rotational force to generate artificial gravity for space habitats has been floating around since NASA called it theoretically viable in the 1960s. Now Japanese researchers hope ...

It would take four centuries to reach its destination. It would carry2,400 people who would never see the world they left or the world their descendants would eventually inhabit. It would need to ...

Living and working in space for extended periods of time presents a number of challenges. These include radiation, as locations beyond Earth's protective magnetosphere are exposed to greater levels of ...

GravityLab, a pioneering firm, makes progress on creating a ground-breaking spinning spaceship that might transform the future of human presence in space-a big step towards understanding and managing ...

Earlier artificial-gravity designs revealed critical weaknesses. Nautilus-X, for example, relied on a rotating torus connected to a central corridor by a single passage. If that connection failed, ...

A lunar-style city, complete with artificial gravity, has been created with the promise of one day allowing for babies to be born on the Moon. The 1,300-foot-tall rotating building, conceived by ...

Interest in putting humans back on the Moon has been making a comeback in recent years. From plans to take us back to the lunar surface, to plans that involve a literal space station orbiting our ...

As the possibility of long-duration space exploration becomes more feasible, the issue of how to preserve astronaut health during such missions is becoming increasingly critical. Recently, Russia’s ...

The major downside of the ambitious plans is that the bases are only expected to become feasible to implement in the 22nd century at the earliest. The "artificial gravity living facilities" will ...

Above: Orbital, which designs and develops adaptable, space-based platforms for the U.S. Department of Defense and commercial customers, successfully completed a test of its proprietary cold gas ...