Lightspeed travel is a popular concept in sci-fi and pop culture, but it's not a technology we are likely to see anytime soon ...

Since the other thread drifted into interstellar colonization... Regrettably, to avoid a crazy generational space ship problems, interstellar travel will have to be able to generate a few percent ...

A team of international astronomers, including a University of Michigan doctoral student, were the first to publish the ...

But interestingly, Romanovskaya proposes that interstellar travel might be happening via free-floating planets, not spaceships, like we see in the movies.

The biggest challenge in mounting a space mission to another star may not be technology, but people, experts say.Scientists, engineers, philosophers, psychologists and leaders in many other fields ...

This is nowhere more clear than in the way Armstrong makes the distinction between the “fast route” and the “slow route.” The fast route is the pathway to interstellar space that tries to ...

Interstellar travel is primarily a problem of propulsion and — even more acute — power. Dynamic soaring could solve some of these problems ...

Les Johnson, author of the new book A Traveler’s Guide to the Stars, talked to WIRED about solar sails and more ways to get farther into the final frontier.

Mar 27, 2025 A new nanomaterial to make lightsails for interstellar travel In a potential step toward sending small spacecraft to the stars, researchers have developed an ultra-thin, ultra-reflective ...