The demise of the ISS will usher in a new era of commercial space stations. Several companies are already developing orbital ...

MILAN – Officina Stellare, an Italian manufacturer of advanced opto-mechanical systems, has signed a 1.84 million euro ($2.0 ...

Chinese taikonaut over the Tianhe main module - Gremlin/Getty Images The familiar silhouette of the International Space Station (ISS) is the first thing we think of when it comes to a habitat in space ...

Vast, the company developing next-generation space stations, announced today that it has raised $500 million in new funding to advance its mission of enabling humanity to live and work in space ...

More than half a century after humans set foot on the Moon, the final frontier still fuels our imagination. Back then, it was all about doing what had never been done before and doing it first. In ...

WASHINGTON — When the United States Space Force was first created, one of its early recruiting ads showed uniformed service members standing watch in spacesuits, gazing over Earth from orbit. The ...

In a bid to extend the life of the International Space Station (ISS) until 2032, Congress aims to ensure the U.S. remains at ...

This cutaway view shows the interior of the Starlab space station’s laboratory. (Starlab Illustration) How do you design a living space where there’s no up or down? That’s one of the challenges facing ...

The ISS has “come into its own as a very sophisticated scientific laboratory,” says retired NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, who famously spent a year in space aboard the station in 2015 and 2016.