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Why humanity may be trapped inside the solar system

Interstellar travel may be blocked by more than distance. Radiation, physics, energy, and time could force humanity to build ...
A promising space technology remains largely unexploited: solar sails. These lightweight structures, propelled by the ...
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 ...
This cosmic visitor is now officially named 3I/ATLAS, and it appears to be a comet from another solar system. Reading time 3 minutes Update: July 3, 09:24 a.m. ET: On Wednesday, July 2, the ...
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 ...