Achieving practical interstellar travel requires overcoming the immense challenge of reaching extraordinary velocities. To send a spacecraft, weighing roughly 1,000 kilograms, to a neighboring ...

Newfound interstellar object 3I/ATLAS may be carrying pristine material from early in the Milky Way’s star-forming history.

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Finally, we will get to see a test of the IVO quantum drive which is a propellentless drive. If it is successful in raising ...

Interstellar travel is one of the most frustrating topics in all of astrophysics. Despite hundreds of articles, movies and TV shows devoted to the subject, in most professional astronomical ...

The third object known to have entered the Solar System from interstellar space has an origin unlike either of its ...

In the 2014 film Interstellar, humanity takes advantage of a wormhole near Saturn to travel to different galaxies in minutes while searching for a new, habitable planet.Similarly, a network of ...

This is why solar sails are really cool, and this is why I like them for interstellar travel. Let’s go out the Earth’s distance from the sun, 1 AU, 93 million miles.

Caltech’s Lightsail Experiment Brings Interstellar Travel Closer to Reality Powered by laser light, this tiny sail lays the groundwork for future advances in lightsail technology and the ...

Nuclear fusion propulsion tech, arguably a golden goose of the space industry, could reduce the travel time to Mars by half and cut the travel time to Titan, Saturn’s moon, to two years instead ...