On Earth, 3D printing can fabricate, layer by layer, thousands of things, from replacement hips to hammers to homes. These devices take raw materials, such as plastic, concrete or metal, and deposit ...

Additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, is regularly used on the ground to quickly produce a variety of devices.

A new era of 3D-printing “microfactories” is helping to turn waste plastics into “highly competitive” products fit for use in ...

While astronauts have operated plastic 3D printers on the International Space Station before, this marks the first successful metal printing in orbit. As missions venture farther from Earth ...

A second, similarly 3D-printed object will be brought back to Earth and handed over to the ... That printer could only produce plastic objects, though, which Wilmore used to craft a faceplate ...

"If this [waste-made plastic] can now be fed into a 3D printer, can you actually print a whole range of products?" she said. One such product already made are "clamps" — or blocks — used in ...