Articles about Interstellar flight

‘Last Exit: Space’ highlights the questions and the quirkiness behind billionaire visions of leaving Earth

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos wants to have millions of people living and working in space — that’s why he founded… Read More

NASA says its Voyager 2 probe has entered interstellar space, six years after Voyager 1

NASA says its Voyager 2 probe has become the second human-made object to fly into interstellar space — six years after… Read More

Breakthrough Listen will check interstellar object just to make sure it’s not a starship

Is that cigar-shaped, fast-moving interstellar object a spaceship? Almost certainly not, but Breakthrough Listen will check just to make sure. The… Read More

Stephen Hawking in "Into the Universe" on Discovery Channel

Stephen Hawking’s latest doomsday prediction: Earth could go to hell by 2600

British physicist Stephen Hawking has warned repeatedly that Earth could well be doomed, but his latest warning gives us no… Read More

Stephen Hawking lays out plan for settling space, from moon and Mars to the stars

British physicist Stephen Hawking has repeatedly warned us that we have just a century or two to move off Earth,… Read More

How screenwriter Jon Spaihts worked the physics of starship travel into ‘Passengers’

The science is under the hood in “Passengers,” a love story set on a giant starship – and screenwriter Jon… Read More

Shields up! Scientists tweak design of Alpha Centauri probes to minimize damage

The scientists behind the Breakthrough Starshot mission are already fine-tuning the design for their nano-probes to increase the odds they’ll… Read More

MSNW’s magnetoshell aerobraking system gets in on NASA’s way-out research fund

A system that would use magnetic fields to ease a spacecraft into orbit after an interplanetary journey has won a… Read More

Billionaire Yuri Milner unveils $100 million start on Starshot mission to Alpha Centauri

Fueled by an initial $100 million from Russian billionaire Yuri Milner, a team laden with big names laid out a multi-decade… Read More