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.

Come for the 12-hour campaign, stay for the co-op mode all about becoming the ultimate alien killer The object of the game is to use your space ship to pick up cargo from one side of the screen and ...

Time works differently in space and on other planets, so the decade-plus that Alien Isolation fans have been waiting for the sequel might have felt like a blink of an eye on a different world. On ...

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 ...

Solar winds and coronal mass ejections may scatter narrow signals, making them harder for Earth-based telescopes to detect. The SETI Institute uses radio telescopes to search for signs of intelligent ...

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 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 future of space stations is becoming a major focus as the International Space Station nears the end of its operational life. Agencies and private companies are now planning the next stage of human ...