From muscle atrophy to bone loss, astronauts face a number of health risks while in space. It's easy to understand why. The human body relies on Earth's gravity to work out muscles and support other ...

Space agency NASA has tested a new way of landing on Mars that could make future missions to the red planet and beyond both possible and affordable. The 20-feet diameter inflatable heat shield, which ...

Deployable composite structures constitute a critical enabling technology for modern and future space missions, offering compact stowage and reliable on-orbit expansion of large apertures, booms and ...

The "visor" for NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope recently completed several environmental tests simulating the conditions it will experience during launch and in space. Called the Deployable ...

The University of Houston is receiving $5 million from NASA to develop expandable infrastructure for the moon and Mars. The money will go toward a new University of Houston research center, called the ...

The rapid advancements in satellite technology have been inextricably bound up with the support provided by sophisticated space folding mechanisms. In addition, with the rapid progression of space ...