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NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver announced Wednesday a newly planned addition to the International Space Station that will use the orbiting laboratory to test expandable space habitat technology.

This animated image shows four ways BEAM may expand in orbit once it has been attached to the International Space Station. This infographic gives facts about the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, ...

NASA is exploring options with Bigelow Aerospace to extend the life of the privately owned Bigelow Expandable Activity Module. Known as BEAM, the module is attached to the International Space Station ...

The International Space Station is set to get a new room for the first time in five years. The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, or BEAM, blows up like a balloon after it's attached to the station.

HOUSTON—Bigelow Aerospace’s bedroom-sized, experimental expandable habitat module crossed the midpoint of its planned two-year stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS) over the U.S. Memorial ...

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The module known as BEAM can be folded so it takes up less room in a cargo rocket, and then expanded once it reaches space. Or at least that's the... NASA called off today's effort to inflate an ...

NASA has successfully deployed the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, the agency's Mars-bound bounce castle in a can. It's hard to overstate our satisfaction. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window ...