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 ...

Engineers have unveiled plans for Chrysalis, a massive 36-mile spacecraft designed to transport up to 2,400 passengers on a journey to Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to our own.The ...

Engineers have designed a 36-mile spacecraft, Chrysalis, capable of carrying 2,400 passengers to Alpha Centauri. The design recently won the Project Hyperion Design Competition.

A team of engineers has come up with designs of a 36-mile-long spacecraft, dubbed Chrysalis, designed to take up to 2,400 ...

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The sci-fi-like project won the top prize in the Project Hyperion Design Competition, a contest for designing hypothetical ...

Have you ever heard of Alpha Centauri? It's the star system closest to our own, and engineers now think they could make a ...

Discover Chrysalis, the groundbreaking design for a starship that could transport 2,400 people to Alpha Centauri in 400 years ...

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The 36-mile-long vessel would be built like a Russian nesting doll, with multiple layers enclosing one another around a ...

Alpha Centauri is the closest star system to Earth and one that has been mentioned in sci-fi films and TV shows many times. A ...

Four centuries from launch, a vast spacecraft could deliver thousands of people to a world orbiting the nearest star. The ...