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

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

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Doing the persnickety calculations of how fast clocks tick on Mars relative to Earth, two scientists have discovered that ...

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For years, scientists thought Saturn’s moon Titan hid a global ocean beneath its frozen surface. A new look at Cassini data ...

NASA’s Carruthers mission will film Earth’s elusive exosphere to understand space weather, atmospheric escape, and planetary habitability. A NASA mission aims to photograph a feature of Earth that is ...

New research using Cassini data suggests Titan may not have a global ocean, but small warm water pockets hidden deep in its ...

Learn how astronauts are safeguarded from hazardous space debris through innovative engineering and international ...