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 ...

There are plenty of considerations when designing this type of mission. One of the biggest of them (literally) is how heavy the spacecraft is. Depiction of the electron beam statite used in the study.