Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. AUSTIN (KXAN) — Exploring beyond our solar system could have lasting impacts here on Earth, and scientists, creatives and industry ...

Scientists have recently unveiled an extraordinary discovery: a massive ‘interstellar tunnel’ that appears to link our Solar System with distant stars. This finding, which blurs the boundaries between ...

"Interstellar navigation is a complex, systematic engineering task. Breakthroughs in a single discipline cannot support the overall progress of the endeavor," Zhu noted. The school integrates ...

Engineers are developing a concept for interstellar travel using a swarm of 1,000 ultra-light "laser sails." The mission aims to send these sails to Proxima b, an exoplanet 4.25 light-years away, ...

Traveling to the stars might remain a dream forever. Vast distances, physics limits, time dilation, and cosmic hazards make ...

The institution, envisioned roughly 70 years ago, will bring together scientists from multiple fields to advise the country’s next generation of aerospace scientists.

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American In an earlier blog post about Christopher ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Exploring beyond our solar system could have lasting impacts here on Earth, and scientists, creatives and industry experts gather at the University of Texas at Austin this week to ...