Before departure, the first inhabitants would train in Antarctica for decades to adapt to isolation. The 58-kilometre-long vessel would rotate to maintain gravity.

Engineers have conceptualized Chrysalis, a rotating spacecraft designed for interstellar travel to Alpha Centauri. This ...

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 facilities, all supported by artificial gravity.

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

US Space Command is preparing for satellite-on-satellite combat Stephen Whiting, the general in charge, offers a glimpse of the near future ...

Google and satellite company Muon Space are launching fire-spotting satellites into space, hoping they’ll detect fires more quickly and help crews learn more about how flames spread.

STARCOM — an acronym for Space Training and Readiness Command — was activated as the Space Force's third field command in August 2021.