Interest in the Moon has been reignited recently, and Japan is looking to get in on the fun. Researchers and engineers from Kyoto University and the Kajima Corporation have released their joint ...

The shocking death of a 4-year-old Sellersville boy on the Mission: Space ride at Disney World last week had many people talking about the effects of centrifugal force on human beings. To understand ...

Japanese scientists have launched the world’s first experiment to ferment sake in space, aiming to determine whether microbial brewing processes can function in lunar gravity. Conducted aboard the ...

Interest in putting humans back on the Moon has been making a comeback in recent years. From plans to take us back to the lunar surface, to plans that involve a literal space station orbiting our ...

The force at work when you twirl a ball around your head on the end of a string can be harnessed and put to work to propel a boat through water. To many engineers, the notion of harnessing gravity to ...

Strategies for near and short term are in play, as well as transit and stationary rotating structures. I find the arguments for and against tethers interesting and somewhat reminiscent of arguments ...

Gravity, despite its pervasive influence, is the weakest fundamental force, easily overcome even by simple actions like lifting a pencil. While achieving and maintaining orbit requires significant ...

Every time an astronaut returns from space, they experience a force four times their body weight. As they leave the ...

You often hear about Lagrangian points because they can be handy places to “park” a spacecraft where it doesn’t need much fuel to stay in the same position relative to Earth. If gravity were the only ...