Long thought to be completely disordered, space ice appears to have some crystallized regions, new research suggests.

In the first, they designed a simple habitat structure that could change its shape and stiffness. Future space explorers could deploy the same kind of material to build a variety of habitat modules.

The agency is looking for structures more than 500 meters long. It envisages uses including vast nets for orbital debris collection, tethers for a space elevator, or self-assembled wings for a ...

At a co-working space in Roslindale, MA, in early August, Aurelia Institute showed off a mock-up of a space habitat called TESSERAE, which is short for Tessellated Electromagnetic Space Structures ...

Bio: Harsh Bhundiya is a PhD candidate in the MIT Aerospace Materials and Structures Laboratory. His research interests lie in spacecraft structures, deployable structures, and space robotics. He ...

Max Space's expandable habitats promise to be larger, stronger, and more versatile than anything like them ever launched, not to mention cheaper and lighter by far than a solid, machined structure.

Tech could be used to build "very large space structures." Credit: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign DARPA has awarded two contracts to demonstrate in-space manufacturing technologies ...

And not some flimsy build, but a structure "comparable to today's highest-performance structures," like say the International Space Station's (ISS) trusses.