I/ATLAS is the fastest comet ever recorded and its interstellar! NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center explains. Credit: NASA's ...

SpaceX's Starship megarocket could eventually live up to its bold name. "This Starship is designed to traverse our entire solar system and beyond to the cloud of objects surrounding us. A future ...

A newly discovered object speeding through our solar system is sparking excitement among astronomers because it’s not from around here. Believed to be a comet, the object is only the third celestial ...

Project Starlight is a NASA-funded mission to develop the technologies to enable interstellar space exploration. The approach is simple—these spacecraft will fly out of the solar system on the tip of ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. How do you design a sail that can get a spacecraft to another solar system? NASA's Voyager 1 and ...

Researchers have proposed a new propulsion method that could make covering the vast distances required for interstellar ...

Engineers are developing a concept for interstellar travel using a swarm of 1,000 ultra-light "laser sails." The mission aims to send these sails to Proxima b, an exoplanet 4.25 light-years away, ...

When Holly Lyn Walrath was in a Round Rock high school in the ’90s, her English teacher made everyone select a poem and recite it in front of the class. Other kids picked the usual Walt Whitman and ...