Despite the $100 million Breakthrough Starshot pledge, public accounting shows less than $10 million spending. Philip Lubin ...

With current rocket propulsion technology, it would take tens or hundreds of millennia to reach our neighboring star system, ...

Thirty years ago this week, two Swiss astronomers announced that they had spotted the first known planet orbiting a Sun-like ...

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Technological limitations for manufacturing large, round telescopes has experts considering unconventional shapes to improve our search for habitable worlds.

This video explores humanity’s long and difficult journey to reach Pluto and the future challenges of interstellar travel. It traces the history of cancelled missions, the eventual success of New ...