Russia has quietly taken a bold step toward solving one of spaceflight’s oldest problems by patenting a space station design ...

Human spaceflight is once again confronting a familiar problem: how to protect astronauts during long missions far beyond ...

Russia’s state-owned Energia rocket company has secured a patent for a space station designed to generate artificial gravity.

According to the patent, habitable modules would rotate around a central axis to simulate gravity for crew by producing an outward-pushing centrifugal force.

A patent has been filed for a space station concept that generates gravity by rotating its ring-like living quarters in Earth ...

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 ...