As China's significant investments in its commercial space sector have raised concerns about technological competition, the Department of Defense ...

Powered by laser light, this tiny sail lays the groundwork for future advances in lightsail technology and the potential for ...

Scientists are developing miniature lightsails that could travel at unprecedented speeds, potentially enabling interstellar travel.

The idea of traveling through interstellar space using spacecraft propelled by ultrathin sails may sound like the stuff of sci-fi novels. But in fact, a program started in 2016 by Stephen Hawking and ...

Science isn't everyone's cup of tea but when it comes to films like Interstellar (2014) (or 2020's Tenet for that matter), ...

Scientists’ ideas for travelling to the stars range from the the wholly improbable to the hugely expensive and very difficult, says Ed Regis ...

Christopher Nolan’s iconic film titled Interstellar was released in the year 2014 and is an extremely visual and exquisite ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

"We see layers like an onion," says astronomer Josh Peek of the Space Telescope Science Institute in the US. "We think every dense, dusty region that we see, and most of the ones we don't see, look ...

"Chemical rockets that we use today, even with the extra speed boost from flying by planets, or from swinging by the sun for ...

The science advisor for “Interstellar” discusses the film’s impact, and how new information about gravitational waves could ...