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 ...

"What about putting people in a horizontally rotating habitat? There have been rotating habitats on Earth, to study the coriolis-effect problem. But they can only add some more G to the 1G that is ...

Engineers at Russia’s Energia Space Rocket Corporation, part of the state-run space agency Roscosmos, have proposed a new answer. According to a patent obtained by the Russian news agency TASS, the ...

Private companies are planning space stations designed for tourism, research, medicine, and deep space missions. From orbital hotels to rotating space habitats, the transcript outlines proposed ...