The Gateway Foundation has announced that it intends to open the first hotel in space, named Voyager Station, in 2027. Voyager Station will be built by construction company Orbital Assembly ...

Private companies are redefining space exploration with ambitious plans for orbital hotels, medical labs, and even lunar ...

Though space hotels have long belonged only to the world of make-believe, that's about to change. NASA says it will open the International Space Station (ISS) to tourists as early as 2020.

The first commercial space hotel will be more like a cruise ship than Stanley Kubrick's sleek space station from 2001, says Tim Alatorre, senior design architect of the Von Braun Space Station.

Californian company the Orbital Assembly Corporation has not one but two space hotels in the pipeline, and it says that the first could be up and running by as early as 2025.