Reaching the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, would take hundreds of thousands of years using current rocket propulsion ...

Nearly fifty years after launch, Voyager 1 is closing in on a milestone no spacecraft has reached before: one full light-day ...

Using even the most advanced rocket propulsion technologies available today, it would take billions ...

Light does more than illuminate the world—it can also push and twist matter. It was back in the 1870s that James Clerk ...

X-rays from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory (represented in blue) have been combined with infrared data from NASA’s retired Spitzer Space Telescope (cyan, light blue, teal and orange) and radio from ...

The mysterious interstellar object hurtling through our solar system has just given scientists more evidence that it may be a craft from another part of the galaxy. According to Harvard astrophysicist ...

Shrink the Star Trek tractor beam down to a microscopic scale, add the ability to twirl the objects trapped in its path, and you’d have a system much like the one described in the 4 May issue of the ...

Add Futurism (opens in a new tab) Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. A team of scientists ...