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Would you be willing to leave Earth on a one-way trip to our nearest star system? In a Live Science poll, we asked our readers whether they would board a spacecraft that takes 400 years to reach Alpha Centauri. The poll was in response to a hypothetical spacecraft called Chrysalis, which won first place in a contest to design a …

Imagine leaving Earth forever and boarding a spaceship designed to carry you and thousands of others on a one-way trip to the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri — a journey that could take 400 years. This is the bold vision behind Chrysalis, a hypothetical spacecraft that could transport 2,400 people over 25 trillion miles (40 trillion kilometers) to the exoplanet …

For beings of our size and lifespans, space is pretty big. So big, in fact, that to make it to our nearest star system you would need to factor in the fairly sizeable downside that you will die of old age before you get there. Humanity has focused on making our spaceships more speedy, as well as the possibility of …

A team of engineers has come up with designs of a 36-mile spacecraft, dubbed Chrysalis, designed to carry up to 2,400 passengers to Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to our own. As first spotted by Live Science, the ambitious vision recently won the team the top prize at the Project Hyperion Design Competition, which was launched last year by …

It’s been a space-heavy week for science news, with a team of engineers winning a design competition for a spaceship that could carry 2,400 passengers on a one-way trip to Alpha Centauri. The craft’s designers say it could be built in as little as 25 years. The downside? The journey will take roughly 400 years, and the first generations of …

Possible Planet Spotted Around Alpha Centauri A by NASA’s James Webb Telescope  The New York Times New signs found of giant gas planet in ‘Earth’s neighbourhood’  BBC A planet from the Avatar movies may exist in real life  NPR James Webb Space Telescope spots a potential new exoplanet just 4 light-years away from Earth  Space Worlds Next Door: A Candidate Giant Planet Imaged in …

Engineers have designed a spacecraft that could take up to 2,400 people on a one-way trip to Alpha Centauri, the star system closest to our own. The craft, called Chrysalis, could make the 25 trillion mile (40 trillion kilometer) journey in around 400 years, the engineers say in their project brief, meaning many of its potential passengers would only know …

The New Horizons spacecraft is humanity’s fastest-moving spacecraft and headed to interstellar space. Since its exploration of Pluto 10 years ago and subsequent flyby of Arrokoth in 2019, it’s been traversing and studying the Kuiper Belt while looking for other flyby objects. That’s not all it’s been doing, however. New Horizons also has an extended program of making heliophysics observations. …