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

Certain species of ground squirrels hibernate underground without any food or water for up to eight months of the year. It’s ...

Credit: Bagchi et al, Monthly Notices of the Astronomical Society/DOI 10.1093/mnras/staf229 Scientists are scratching their heads after taking a closer look at 2MASX J23453268−0449256, a spiral galaxy ...

In a potential step toward sending small spacecraft to the stars, researchers have developed an ultra-thin, ultra-reflective ...

Among the most fascinating phenomena are gamma rays, the most energetic form of electromagnetic radiation. Recently, ...

Only a minuscule portion of the universe and 5 percent of the ocean floor have been visited. Both deep sea travel and deep space travel come with a lot of risks and a lot of preparation, but when it ...

After Scott Kelly spent a year on the International Space Station, the astronaut returned to Earth in 2016 shorter, more nearsighted, lighter and with new symptoms of heart disease that his ...

The Sunbird nuclear fusion rocket concept has the potential to more than halve the time to travel to Mars and cut travel ... intelligence to design a hyper-fast space rocket, with the aim being to ...

Deep Space Nine went even further ... Case in point, the hilarious time-travel episode “Little Green Men.” “Little Green Men” sends Ferengi Quark, Rom, and Nog (and a stowaway Odo ...