"The lightsail will travel faster than any previous spacecraft, with potential to eventually open interstellar distances to ...

Christopher Nolan’s iconic film titled Interstellar was released in the year 2014 and is an extremely visual and exquisite ...

"Interstellar flight requires us to collect and control vast ... As the electron beam passes through the plasma, it sees a magnetic field due to passing by the ions left behind from the space plasma; ...

Powered by laser light, this tiny sail lays the groundwork for future advances in lightsail technology and the potential for ...

While an antimatter engine is very far off, researching it could yield other discoveries as well.

Most people hear “spacecraft” and envision rockets blasting into space, but they’re often not aware of the meticulous ...

About 350 years later, that pulse of light has reached interstellar material, illuminating it, warming it, and causing it to glow in infrared light. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has observed ...

Science isn't everyone's cup of tea but when it comes to films like Interstellar (2014) (or 2020's Tenet for that matter), ...

Interstellar gas and dust heated by a centuries ... which likely play a role in how gas sheds its magnetic field — a crucial step for allowing gas to collapse and form stars, but one that ...

This wide-field view of the sky around the bright star system Alpha Centauri was created from photographic images forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2. (Image credit: ESO/Digitized Sky ...