A new study examines how much material from the closest star system to Earth will end up in orbit around the Sun, and how ...

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

Oumuamua and Comet Borisov in 2017 and 2019, respectively, created a surge of interest. What were they? Where did they come ...

Last fall, the scientific community went into a minor frenzy. A hunk of interstellar material had been sucked into the ...

"These two supernova remnants are helping us to better understand the dynamics of our home galaxy’s neighborhood," ...

What’s more, Webb used its Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) instrument to observe glowing interstellar gas and dust illuminated ...

"The lightsail will travel faster than any previous spacecraft, with potential to eventually open interstellar distances to ...

The objects were in the same region of the sky but were 13,000 light-years apart and not related to each other. The details ...

Interstellar travel has long been a dream, but getting to the stars is incredibly difficult. A new project is bringing the space community closer to realizing this dream. The Breakthrough Starshot ...

A celestial object may have altered Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune Simulations suggest it was up to eight times Jupiter’s mass The study proposes a close flyby reshaped planetary orbits ...

A mysterious interstellar object, estimated to be eight times the mass of Jupiter, may have significantly altered the orbits of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune billions of years ago.

Ultimately, these findings will help develop space-ready lightsails—one of the most promising vehicles for interstellar travel, as they rely on an essentially limitless energy source ...