From science fiction to potential reality, artificial gravity promises to change the way we live and travel in space, making ...

Humans have been in space onboard the ISS continuously for 25 years. As the station nears its end, new commercial habitats are lining up to take its place ...

Four centuries from launch, a vast spacecraft could deliver thousands of people to a world orbiting the nearest star. The concept, called Chrysalis, is designed for one purpose — to take humanity to ...

They are entirely feasible and, with sufficient funding, we could build one within months or years! Due to the effect of the Coriolis force on the semicircular canals (three tubes in the inner ear), ...

One way to longer life may be higher gravity—at least for rats. That is the “very tentative suggestion” of experiments performed by NASA Physiologist Jiro Oyama, who has been raising mice and rats ...

Does Earth's magnetic field do all that much against cosmic rays? Those are quite high energy, hundreds of MeV. My understanding is most of the effect is against solar radiation, which is much lower ...

A team of engineers has come up with designs of a 36-mile spacecraft, dubbed Chrysalis, designed to carry up to 2,400 passengers to Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to our own. Unsurprisingly, ...

The imminent decommissioning of the International Space Station (ISS) is prompting a surge in private sector development of commercial space stations, marking a shift from government-led initiatives.

When I say impossible here's what I mean: it's impossible on time scales that humans care about. It defies human psychology, which overwhelmingly weights short term benefits and costs more than long ...