For more than half a century, spaceflight has meant towering chemical rockets, disposable stages and cramped capsules perched ...

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 ...

Physics sets unforgiving limits on how fast anything can move, yet the same laws also leave surprising room for creative ways to cross the gulf between stars. The real question is not whether the ...

"Interstellar navigation is a complex, systematic engineering task. Breakthroughs in a single discipline cannot support the ...

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, ...

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

Anyway, the relevant portion of this for me is not so much how many kinds of life exist on Earth but the extreme speed with which life got established here. So that's an narrow window between life is ...

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 ...