A team of researchers from Texas A&M University has demonstrated the use of laser beams to lift and steer tiny engineered ...

It'd be a major upgrade over spending thousands of years to get there. The post Scientists Say They’ve Tested a Way to Get to ...

Since Star Trek was beamed into our television sets in 1966, warp drives and faster-than-light engines have been the pillar ...

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

Laser sail propulsion is an idea that won't go away. By aiming powerful Earth-based lasers at tiny spacecraft with light sails, tiny spacecraft can be accelerated to near-relativistic speeds without ...

A tiny, first-of-its-kind, nanoscale demonstration shows how we could one day send a spacecraft to another star, within a ...

If an alien in the Alpha Centauri star system were craving pizza, it would take tens of thousands of years to deliver it ...

An Old World designer has discussed his dream game - a Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri sequel that "renews the mechanics with what ...

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

Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to our own, sits 4.37 light-years away. At the speed Voyager 1 travels, reaching it ...

Greetings! We’re losing Mercury from our early morning skies, but Mars and Saturn are getting easier to see. Saturn is above ...