In a potential step toward sending small spacecraft to the stars, researchers have developed an ultra-thin, ultra-reflective ...

A new lightsail design could help lay the path for interstellar travel at speeds around one-fifth the speed of light ...

A new ultra-thin lightsail design could cut interstellar travel time by centuries, say scientists from Brown and TU Delft.

Since its launch in 1977, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has traveled over 15 billion miles into deep space. That’s a long way — but it’s not even 1% of the distance to Alpha Centauri, the nearest star ...

With Space Marine 3 in development, there are a couple of great planets fans might hope to see featured in the next game.

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Christopher Nolan and Sir David Attenborough recently received the prestigious Hawking Medal for Science Communication.

Researchers at TU Delft and Brown University have developed scalable nanotechnology-based lightsails that could support ...