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

An international team of researchers from Brown University (USA) and Delft University of Technology (Netherlands) has made a ...

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

Cosmic speed limits can be a major inconvenience but they've rarely stopped science fiction in its tracks.

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

"We're trying to encounter an astronomical object that streaks through our solar system just once and we don’t want to miss ...

A photovoltaic Dyson sphere is a theoretical megastructure that could provide vast amounts of energy for interstellar space ...

An interstellar spacecraft would not simply ... there are also social and psychological hurdles to prolonged space travel. Such a ship must be not only a high-performance machine but also a ...

NASA’s Voyager probes are failing, creating an urgent need for a new deep-space mission. A proposed interstellar probe could ...