Interstellar Travel

Our instruments to detect them are getting more sophisticated.

A scientific discovery that could transform the study of warp drive is now under wraps at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course.

For the uninitiated, antimatter is the bizarre evil twin of normal matter, with opposite charges and physical properties. In the rare event the duo collides, it results...

Developer Archetype Entertainment have released The Traveler's Creed gameplay trailer called The Traveler's Creed for the science-fiction action-adventure RPG, Exodus.View [...]

NASA reconnected with Voyager 1, which is located nearly 15 billion miles away from Earth, after a brief pause that triggered the spacecraft's fault protection system.

Sometimes to figure out complicated quantum mechanics it helps to simplify.

In a new paper published in the Astrophysical Journal, Dr. Ravi Kopparapu and colleagues assessed the potential detectability of solar panels made of silicon on an Earth-like exoplanet as a potential technosignature.

In a first for warp drives, this research actually obeys the laws of physics.

The first book of Cixin Liu's science fiction trilogy, "Remembrance of Earth's Past," gets a Netflix adaptation premiering Thursday.

Solar sails are well suited for life-hunting missions to icy, ocean-harboring moons like Europa and Enceladus, a new study suggests.

Don't feel like rewatching the first Dune film? Don't worry, we've gone and done the work for you

Future astronauts travelling to distant stars at close to the speed of light could find themselves isolated from Earth for most of their interstellar journey by communication blackouts, according to the results of a new study.

Bringing Classical Physics Into The Modern World With Galileo's Leaning Tower Of Pisa Experiment

Due to the mind-blowing distances and speeds required, interstellar travel remains a major spaceflight challenge. But new research highlights yet another...

The laws of physics mean that communication with near-light-speed spacecraft would be very challenging.

Missions to the moon, missions to Mars, robotic explorers to the outer solar system, a mission to the nearest star, and maybe even a spacecraft to catch up to interstellar objects passing through our system. If you think this sounds like a description of the coming age of space exploration, then you'd be correct.

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Marc Andreessen published a new essay about why AI will save the world. I had Marc on my podcast a few months ago (YouTube, Audio), and he was there, as he is usually, incredibly thoughtful and interesting. But in the case of AI, he fails to engage with the people worried about AI misalignment. Instead, he substitutes aphorisms for arguments. He calls safety worriers names, questions their motives, and conflates…