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 ...

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 ...

A new spaceship design has won a prize. The spaceship is named Chrysalis. It is designed for a long journey to Alpha Centauri ...

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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 ...

The design for a 36 mile long spacecraft, called Chrysalis, includes libraries, tropical forests and structural manufacturing facilities, all supported by artificial gravity.