A giant rotating space habitat known as an "O'Neill Cylinder" after its inventor. It could be miles across and uses centrifugal force to generate artificial gravity.Blue Origin Pop stars are floating ...

Artificial gravity orbital habitats are under development, opening up the possibility of lengthy missions to Mars and beyond ...

Russia has quietly taken a science fiction staple and turned it into a legal blueprint, securing a patent for a rotating orbital outpost that would create artificial gravity for crews. The design ...

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 ...

US firm Vast is developing spinning space stations with artificial gravity to keep astronauts healthy on deep-space missions and push the search for alien life.

Human spaceflight is once again confronting a familiar problem: how to protect astronauts during long missions far beyond Earth. Engineers at Russia's Energia Space Rocket Corporation, part of the ...