The familiar silhouette of the International Space Station (ISS) is the first thing we think of when it comes to a habitat in space. But the ISS is not the only one. Space habitation has evolved into ...

NASA announced plans Thursday to bring Crew-11 home from the International Space Station (ISS) ahead of schedule after a crew member experienced a medical issue, stressing the astronaut is stable and ...

For humanity to explore space and distant worlds, we will need to construct enormous artificial habitats in space with diverse ecologies. Trump pulls US out of more than 30 UN bodies Lack of oil ...

The space station industry is starting to take off. For decades, if you wanted to send an astronaut or experiment into orbit, the International Space Station (ISS) was the only option. But now, as ...

The company is establishing a manufacturing facility at Kennedy Space Center and plans to hire 30 to 50 people by mid-2026. A small-scale demonstration mission is scheduled to launch on a SpaceX ...

The International Space Station was painstakingly assembled segment by segment, launched into orbit by many expensive and logistically complex rockets. Now there’s intense interest in a radically ...

Commercial space stations are rapidly moving from concept to reality. As NASA prepares for the International Space Station’s retirement around 2030, a burgeoning private orbital industry could step ...

With the International Space Station (ISS) set to retire in 2030, several nations and commercial space companies have plans to deploy their own successor stations. This includes China, which plans to ...

The takeaway: A Florida-based startup has announced plans for a commercial space station that could be deployed using a single rocket. The Thunderbird Station from Max Space is meant to expedite the ...

Florida startup Max Space announced its plans to launch a prototype of its commercial space station by 2027, testing its expandable habitat technology that aims to reduce the number of trips needed to ...

Max Space is proposing to develop Thunderbird Station, with a single module that can launch on a Falcon 9 and expand to 350 cubic meters once in orbit. Credit: Max Space WASHINGTON — Max Space, a ...