Russia has quietly taken a bold step toward solving one of spaceflight’s oldest problems by patenting a space station design ...

According to the patent, habitable modules would rotate around a central axis to simulate gravity for crew by producing an ...

Russia’s state-owned Energia rocket company has secured a patent for a space station designed to generate artificial gravity.

Autonomous free-flying robots aboard the International Space Station (ISS) frequently lose their bearings. Without gravity to distinguish up from down, even precision sensors suffer from accumulating ...