Engineers have conceptualized Chrysalis, a rotating spacecraft designed for interstellar travel to Alpha Centauri. This ambitious project, winner of the Project Hyperion Design Competition, envisions ...

With the restraints placed upon them by physics, sci-fi writers have imagined "generational ships" for decades. The idea is pretty simple: creating a ship that will sustain a small society of humans ...

A team of engineers has come up with designs of a 36-mile spacecraft, dubbed Chrysalis, designed to carry 2,400 passengers to ...

The sci-fi-like project won the top prize in the Project Hyperion Design Competition, a contest for designing hypothetical ...

A new spaceship design has won a prize. The spaceship is named Chrysalis. It is designed for a long journey to Alpha Centauri ...

Four centuries from launch, a vast spacecraft could deliver thousands of people to a world orbiting the nearest star. The ...

The design for a 36 mile long spacecraft, called Chrysalis, includes libraries, tropical forests and structural manufacturing ...

There, over a thousand passengers who have been living in the airborne habitat (the descendants of a crew that launched from ...

The Space Force is leveraging commercial competition for the next phase of its PTS program.

In the summer of 1985, NASA, the Reagan White House and seven talented astronauts were wrangled into an orbital battle over soft-drink supremacy.

The Space Force’s uncrewed space plane is set for its next mission. The X-37B, the nine-meter-long spacecraft known for its lengthy trips in orbit, will blast off for its eighth mission on Aug. 21.

Pulsar Fusion, a UK-based space company, is opening its US headquarters in Austin, Texas to develop nuclear fusion powered engines for space travel, with the goal of testing them in space by 2027.