If we achieve advanced nuclear, antimatter propulsion or other advance propulsion it would be possible to achieve near constant acceleration. This would enable travel times to Mars in the 3-8 day ...

Humanity has achieved incredible milestones in space exploration, from landing on the Moon to sending probes beyond our solar system—but true interstellar travel remains far beyond our reach. This ...

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...

A star is heading toward the outskirts of our solar system, and it’s getting here sooner than expected.Gliese 710, a rogue ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Scientists have discovered new information about the interstellar object nearing Earth which could reveal facts about the ...

From Interstellar to Star Wars, science fiction is filled with stories of how humans might travel through the universe to visit distant worlds. But even with our most advanced modern rockets, ...

The European Space Agency also hoped to observe the interstellar object during its close approach to Mars using two ...

For only the third time in history, astronomers have detected a new interstellar visitor — an object from another star — blitzing into our solar system. First named A11pl3Z and now designated as ...

3I/ATLAS is called a comet. Except that, upon closer look, it doesn't look like a comet. Dubbed as an "unusually fast" ...

Most of that brightness increase has been in the green part of the visible light spectrum, suggesting a “surge of gas ...