A new method for manufacturing lightsails that can reach up 20% of the speed of light is making the technology look more ...

Fusion has long been the propulsion end-goal for interplanetary travel, and a U.K.-based company thinks on its way to achieving that dream.

Interstellar objects are among the last unexplored classes of solar system objects, holding tantalizing information about ...

The heliosphere, a cosmic bubble formed by the Sun, protects our solar system from interstellar threats and influences life's ...

Bothell, Wash.-based Portal Space Systems shows off the lab where its solar thermal propulsion system will be developed.

Nuclear pulse propulsion is a technology that would work. It was being developed in the 1960s but it was stopped because of ...

If we achieve advanced nuclear, antimatter propulsion or other advance propulsion it would be possible to achieve near ...

The Tau Manta Missile Destroyer, also known simply as the Manta, is a super-heavy vessel used by the Tau Empire for the transportation of whole Hunter Cadres. A rank of Kor’ui is sufficient to pilot ...

Voyager 1 crossed into interstellar space in 2012, followed by Voyager 2 in 2018, making them the only spacecraft to operate ...

with applications in interstellar journeys, interplanetary cargo transport and deep-space exploration. The engine is a plasma propulsion system, working by ionizing the propellant to create plasma ...