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

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

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

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

Four centuries from launch, a vast spacecraft could deliver thousands of people to a world orbiting the nearest star. The concept, called Chrysalis, is designed for one purpose — to take humanity to ...

The researchers named this hypothesized moon Chrysalis and said it may have been torn apart by tidal forces from Saturn's gravitational pull perhaps 160 million years ago - relatively recent ...