Astronauts venturing deep into space could receive medical treatments using 3D-printed skin, bone and – one day – entire organs, according to a leading group of 3D bioprinting experts who gathered at ...

Rocket engineering is shifting from painstaking machining and welding to a world where engines and tanks emerge from printers ...

As space exploration aims to go further than ever before, space agencies and companies are looking at new ways to sustain longer duration space flights, as well as on other planetary bodies. A ...

Recently a team from the University of California, Berkeley sent a new 3D printer to space on a Virgin Galactic mission. The printer, called SpaceCAL and designed specifically for microgravity ...

Throughout history, when pioneers set out across uncharted territory to settle in distant lands, they carried with them only the essentials: tools, seeds and clothing. Anything else would have to come ...

The first metal 3D printer that will be used in space is on its way to the International Space Station. The Cygnus NG-20 supply mission, which is carrying the 180kg (397 lbs) printer, launched on ...

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Not every 3D print is a win. These prints caused more frustration than fixes once real-world heat, weight, and daily use set ...

Last fall we told you about 3D-printed telescope parts -- except, of course, for the mirror. But that may not be true much longer. New telescope mirror designs from NASA for space-based instruments ...

Researchers at a Scottish university have taken one small step toward a future where orbital factories can 3D print future tech on-demand in space. Dr. Gilles Bailet, from the University of Glasgow’s ...

With the first space hotel on the horizon, space tourism is heading into reality from fiction. Tourism is but one development in the multi-faceted space commercialization. In a recently released ...