Last fall, the scientific community went into a minor frenzy. A hunk of interstellar material had been sucked into the ...

"Interstellar flight requires us to collect ... As the electron beam passes through the plasma, it sees a magnetic field due to passing by the ions left behind from the space plasma; that magnetic ...

Could our solar system have been temporarily exposed to an enhanced flux of cosmic-rays at some point in the ancient past?

This introduction to the field of interstellar molecules considers the spectroscopic observations which have led to the identification of more than 50 molecules in the interstellar medium. Although it ...

"Chemical rockets that we use today, even with the extra speed boost from flying by planets, or from swinging by the sun for a boost, just don't have the ability to scale to useful interstellar speeds ...