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Latest in interstellar travel

A team of engineers has come up with designs of a 36-mile spacecraft, dubbed Chrysalis, designed to carry 2,400 passengers to Alpha Centauri.

Scientists Design Huge Spacecraft That Could Carry 2,400 Colonists to Alpha Centauri

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists launched a design competition for a massive multi-generational spaceship that could sustain humans on the way to the next star.

Researchers Plotting Giant Spaceship That Could Carry Generations of Humans

By Victor Tangermann

The Limitless Space Institute non-profit is generating enough excitement and funding for the idea for a warp drive it has started giving out grants.

SpaceX-Affiliated Group Giving Out Funding for Warp Drive Research

By Victor Tangermann

Advanced civilizations could have entire planets act as one massive starship to migrate to other systems, leaving their old and collapsing host star behind.

Scientist Proposes Using Entire Planet as Spaceship to Different Star System

By Victor Tangermann

Getting a closer look at interstellar rock 'Oumuamua could forever change the way we understand the universe around us, scientists argue.

Scientists Propose Mission to Catch Up With Mysterious Interstellar Object

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's interstellar Voyager 1 probe is "detecting the faint, persistent hum of interstellar gas" after crossing the heliopause in 2012.

NASA Detects “Hum” Coming From Beyond Solar System

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory are testing if we can harness the heat of the Sun to travel to interstellar space.

NASA Tests Experimental Interstellar Propulsion System

By Victor Tangermann

Jim Woodward's MEGA drive, a theoretical spacecraft propulsion device, could allow us to travel to distant stars in the far future.

NASA-Funded Scientist Claims New Thruster Could Approach Light Speed

By Victor Tangermann

If a spacecraft ferried passengers to new star systems, their language would evolve to the point of making communicating with Earth extremely difficult.

On an Interstellar Flight, Language Itself Would Evolve

By Dan Robitzski

One Scientist Has a Plan to Send the Building Blocks of Life to Distant Exoplanets

When Will the First Human Leave the Solar System?

When Will the First Human Leave the Solar System?

By Christianna Reedy

These Projects Could Take Us to the Stars in the Next 20 Years

These Projects Could Take Us to the Stars in the Next 20 Years

Stephen Hawking’s Tiny Spacecraft Could Reach Another Solar System in Just Over 20 Years

Stephen Hawking’s Tiny Spacecraft Could Reach Another Solar System in Just Over 20 Years

Breakthrough Tech Could Allow Us to Reach Alien Worlds in Just 70 Years

Breakthrough Tech Could Allow Us to Reach Alien Worlds in Just 70 Years

By Chelsea Gohd

Is That Ship From “Passengers” Really Possible?

Is That Ship From “Passengers” Really Possible?

Scientists Have Launched a New Quest to Take Humanity Beyond Our Solar System

Scientists Have Launched a New Quest to Take Humanity Beyond Our Solar System

By Todd Jaquith