To reach Earth’s closest star system, Alpha Centauri, scientists are building a laser-powered spacecraft. To pull off ...

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

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 ...

Achieving practical interstellar travel requires overcoming the immense challenge of reaching extraordinary velocities. To ...

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!

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 ...

Antimatter engines could be humanity's ticket to interstellar travel. When antimatter particles come in contact with regular matter, it produces loads of energy. That energy, if we learn to ...

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.