Tag: Interstellar Travel
For hundreds of years, people have looked up at the night sky, imagining what it would be like to travel among the stars. Yet, despite our technological advancements, the reality of interstellar travel remains daunting. The closest star to our Sun, Proxima Centauri, is 4.24 light-years away—a distance so immense that...
When we think of "holes" in space, black holes likely come to mind first — those mysterious regions where gravity is so intense, not even light can escape. But black holes are just one kind of space object that’s called a “hole.” In reality, the universe hosts a diverse...
Have you ever stood beneath the vast night sky and attempted to fathom the incomprehensible grandeur of the universe? The twinkling stars we can see with unaided vision constitute a vanishingly small fraction - less than one ten-thousandth of a percent - of the celestial bodies contained within our...
Space travel has always been limited by how fast and far our rockets can take us. Traditional rockets, powered by chemical fuel, work well for getting us off the ground but are slow and require massive amounts of fuel for long journeys. Even nuclear propulsion, while more efficient, still...
