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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 ...
Here are some potential ways we Earthlings could achieve interstellar travel, ranked from least to most likely. Skip to content Introducing the all-new Astronomy.com Forum!
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 ...
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 ...
Astronomers manning an asteroid warning system caught a glimpse of a large, bright object zipping through the solar system ...
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 ...