Engineers designed an 'architected' reef that can mimic the wave-buffering effects of natural reefs while providing pockets for marine life. The sustainable and cost-saving structure could dissipate ...

Blue Origin and Sierra Space announced Orbital Reef in October 2021 as part of a partnership with Boeing, Redwire Space and several other companies and organizations. The station will ultimately ...

Orbital Reef, a commercially owned and operated space station project currently in development, has cleared a key review by NASA. NASA's system definition review, which was conducted between mid-June ...

The Museum of Arts and Design marks 10 years of Margaret and Christine Wertheim's "Crochet Coral Reef" project, a vibrant response to the destruction of our ocean life. Installation view of ‘Crochet ...

Back in October last year, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin announced plans to build an orbital station meant to advance both research and space tourism. Called Orbital Reef and developed together with Sierra ...

New research has identified optimal design for artificial habitats to support restoration of oyster reefs, based on a detailed understanding of natural oyster reef geometry. Published in the global ...

Artificial reef design has been taken to a new level by an Australian-Bahraini team that includes Sustainable Oceans International (SOI) a specialist reef design consultancy in Australia, James ...

LOUISVILLE, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Orbital Reef team, led by principal partners Sierra Space and Blue Origin, has successfully completed its Systems Requirements Review (SRR) in just three months ...

What you're looking at is a tool that could aid our coral ecosystems. (And it's made with 3D printing …) Human hands have brought our oceans to a crisis point, but these same hands have the power to ...

The beautiful, gnarled, nooked-and-crannied reefs that surround tropical islands serve as a marine refuge and natural buffer against stormy seas. But as the effects of climate change bleach and break ...