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 ...

That same report explains that while the International Space Station prepares for a watery end, Russia is looking up and spinning, a vivid phrase used to describe how the country is pivoting from the ...

"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 ...