A new ultra-thin lightsail design could cut interstellar travel time by centuries, say scientists from Brown and TU Delft.

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help NASA build realistic exercise protocols for future deep space missions. Additionally, this investigation could support design improvements for exercise devices used to prevent or treat bone ...

and deep space environments. The key scientific and technological challenges of constructing robotics in extreme environments, and how to achieve biomimetic mechanism design, real-time environmental ...

Sometimes deep space can seem like a cold, uncaring place fully removed from the dramas unfolding on the planet Earth. However, a new study from scientists at University of California Santa Cruz ...