"Chemical rockets that we use today, even with the extra speed boost from flying by planets, or from swinging by the sun for ...

Scientists’ ideas for travelling to the stars range from the the wholly improbable to the hugely expensive and very difficult ...

SpaceX is currently building the most powerful rocket ever, but Musk’s long-term vision goes far beyond Mars. He has hinted at a future Starship capable of deep-space travel, potentially reaching ...

Some 350 years after a supernova, its shockwave reaches interstellar space and causes clouds of gas and dust to glow. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / Jacob Jencson (Caltech/IPAC) Scientists ...

The idea of traveling through interstellar space using spacecraft propelled by ultrathin sails may sound like the stuff of sci-fi novels. But in fact, a program started in 2016 by Stephen Hawking ...

The other advantage lies in the fact that space is not empty ... being done on laser-pushed spacecraft for interstellar flight is looking at ships of only a few grams, and that's very challenging ...

"This is going to completely change the way we think about the foundations of the cold interstellar medium," Josh Peek, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Maryland ...

This breathtaking image captured dust in cosmic space in unprecedented detail, allowing astronomers to look at the 3D structure of interstellar material with precision they never thought possible.