A newly discovered object speeding through our solar system is sparking excitement among astronomers because it’s not from around here. Believed to be a comet, the object is only the third celestial ...

3I/ATLAS is the fastest comet ever recorded and its interstellar! NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center explains. Credit: NASA's ...

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, ...

We normally think of interstellar flight in terms of reaching a single target. The usual destination is one of the Alpha Centauri stars, and because we know of a terrestrial-mass planet there, Proxima ...

Researchers at Cornell University have assembled a shortlist of rocky exoplanets sitting inside their stars’ habitable zones, ranking them as plausible destinations for an interstellar probe that ...

Since last century, humankind has been demonstrating it can fly unmanned space vehicles to the planets revolving around our star, the sun. Can humankind send probes this century to any stars beyond ...

Overview / Yoji Kondo -- Fly me to the stars : interstellar travel in fact and fiction / Charles Sheffield -- Ad astra! / Robert Forward -- The ultimate exploration : a review of propulsion concepts ...