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

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 ...

Deep space travel has a biology problem. Human bodies are built for a narrow band of temperatures, gravity and radiation, yet ...

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

NASA’s newly launched IMAP mission is set to tell us more about the boundary between our Solar System and interstellar space ...

So, space tourism is on the table. We’re talking about trips that could take people to the edge of space and maybe even ...

A cool interstellar comet that for millions of years has drifted in the spaces between our stars is now back in our telescope viewing range and will make its closest approach to Earth this week. We’re ...

3I/ATLAS is the third interstellar visitor ever to visit the solar system having been formed around a distant star. Tune in ...

New research suggests that essential components of life may assemble in interstellar space long before planets or oceans exist.