Achieving practical interstellar travel requires overcoming the immense challenge of reaching extraordinary velocities. To ...

Traveling from one star to another is currently impossible to achieve within a human lifetime. But some projects are designing ways to propel payloads to the nearest star system (Alpha Centauri) using ...

The concept relies on a solar statite, a theoretical structure hovering close to the Sun, stabilizing itself using solar and magnetic forces to form the powerful beam. Powering such a beam ...

Highlighted in a new paper published in the journal Acta Astronautica, this spacecraft relies on a relativistic electron beam fired from a solar statite (static satellite) devilishly close to the ...