Max Space, a startup developing expandable module technologies, plans to build a commercial space station that could launch on a single Falcon 9 rocket.

The next generation of orbital outposts is being designed to skip the painstaking, decade‑long construction that defined the ...

Vast Space is taking big steps toward putting the first commercial space station in orbit. The California-based startup recently completed a major testing milestone for the qualification vessel of its ...

A pathfinder mission for Vast’s privately owned space station launched into orbit Sunday and promptly extended its solar panel, kicking off a shakedown cruise to prove the company’s designs can meet ...

Engineers intentionally blew up a full-scale prototype of an inflatable space module that could be used in future missions. Watch the big bang unfold here. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

Earlier this month, NASA released a set of photos highlighting a newly arrived module for Gateway, a small space station that the agency aims to launch to lunar orbit in 2027. That module is HALO ...

The Apollo lunar missions worked by using a spacecraft in two parts. The Command and Service Module (CSM) and the Lunar Module (LM) traveled together from the launch pad at Cape Kennedy to lunar orbit ...

“The International Space Station is dead; long live the International Space Station” may well be what headlines read five years from now after the landmark space station is decommissioned and ...

WASHINGTON — Axiom Space has awarded a contract to Redwire to provide solar arrays for the first module of Axiom’s planned commercial space station. The companies announced Sept. 25 that Redwire will ...

Humans have been living and working aboard the International Space Station (ISS) since 2000, but like every piece of aging machinery, the orbital outpost has a limited lifespan. In fact, the ISS only ...

A private astronaut mission that just took flight has exposed a new twist in a lingering — and potentially dangerous — issue at humanity’s most frequently visited destination in space. Axiom Space ...

Designing a space station is taking a little longer than Vast expected, but the company is still moving at a breakneck pace. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...