Humanity has already flung machines into interstellar space, but sending people is a different problem entirely. The physics ...
A Harvard scientist has ignited a flurry of speculation and scientific inquiry by suggesting that an interstellar object on course for Earth might be nuclear-powered. This intriguing hypothesis has ...
"Interstellar navigation is a complex, systematic engineering task. Breakthroughs in a single discipline cannot support the ...
The institution, envisioned roughly 70 years ago, will bring together scientists from multiple fields to advise the country’s next generation of aerospace scientists.