Experimental cosmologist group launches its first iterations of space-traveling 'wafercraft'
These are the adventures of the "StarChip Wafersize."
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Using black holes to conquer space: The halo drive
The idea of traveling to another star system has been the dream of people long before the first rockets and astronauts were sent to space. But despite all the progress we have made since the beginning of the Space Age, interstellar ...
Space Exploration
Mar 14, 2019
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Why sailing to the stars has suddenly become a realistic goal
It takes a bold person to declare that interstellar travel is now within our grasp. Physicist Stephen Hawking has shown that he is just that, taking part in the Breakthrough Starshot initiative. The project has announced ...
Space Exploration
Apr 14, 2016
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Enrico Fermi and extraterrestrial intelligence
It's become a kind of legend, like Newton and the apple or George Washington and the cherry tree. One day in 1950, the great physicist Enrico Fermi sat down to lunch with colleagues at the Fuller Lodge at Los Alamos National ...
Astronomy
Apr 8, 2015
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Talking to aliens
What do you say to a space alien? This question might not be the foremost puzzle in your life, but it was the subject of a lively two-day conference at California's SETI Institute this week.
Space Exploration
Nov 17, 2014
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Climate change may prevent contact with alien civilisations
Enrico Fermi, when asked about intelligent life on other planets, famously replied, "Where are they?" Any civilisation advanced enough to undertake interstellar travel would, he argued, in a brief period of cosmic time, populate ...
Astronomy
Jun 10, 2014
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An interstellar journey for CubeSats
In Greek mythology, Icarus was the impulsive son who ignored his father's warning about flying too close to the sun. But the students in the Drexel University chapter of Icarus Interstellar are much too dedicated to do anything ...
Space Exploration
Dec 3, 2013
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Interstellar travelers may be helped by physicist's calculations that solve the Pioneer anomaly
(Phys.org)—Former President Bill Clinton recently expressed his support for interstellar travel at the 100 Year Spaceship Symposium, an international event advocating for human expansion into other star systems. Interstellar ...
General Physics
Oct 9, 2012
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Review: A stellar finish to 'Mass Effect' trilogy
(AP) -- Science fiction fans love their galactic empires. From the novels of Isaac Asimov and Frank Herbert to the multimedia epics created by George Lucas and Gene Roddenberry, the planet-hopping space opera has enthralled ...
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Mar 8, 2012
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Through hardship to the stars
"Humanity's adventurous, stubborn, mad and glorious aspiration to reach the stars" is the subject of Physics World's lead feature in January.
Space Exploration
Jan 4, 2012
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