SpaceX's Starship megarocket could eventually live up to its bold name. "This Starship is designed to traverse our entire solar system and beyond to the cloud of objects surrounding us. A future ...

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

Project Starlight is a NASA-funded mission to develop the technologies to enable interstellar space exploration. The approach is simple—these spacecraft will fly out of the solar system on the tip of ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. How do you design a sail that can get a spacecraft to another solar system? NASA's Voyager 1 and ...

The interstellar comet contained abundant elements of carbon-rich chemical compounds, which also included methanol, unlike ...

When Holly Lyn Walrath was in a Round Rock high school in the ’90s, her English teacher made everyone select a poem and recite it in front of the class. Other kids picked the usual Walt Whitman and ...