Here's a short (2 minute) NASA video on a laser-driven interstellar swarm, published a few months ago... ( Thanks to @bargill33.bsky.social for the link !) youtu.be/XXW_keR5OIM?...

Here's another 'Interstellar' video from @isaac-arthur.bsky.social ...

The November issue of our Principium magazine is out now ! Many thanks to our new editor Gill Norman @bargill33.bsky.social and her team for all their hard work, they are introduced in the text. Read it all here : i4is.org/principium-51/

Here's a great video from Isaac Arthur covering many aspects of Interstellar colonisation... - What Counts as Interstellar? - Transport and Survival - Nearby Candidates - How Might We Do It? - Sleeper Ships - Interstellar Relays - Cloning and Digital Migration youtu.be/r1VZVmnIZDg?...

The Interstellar Research Group is offering three $2,500 scholarships for undergrad, master’s, and doctoral students advancing humanity’s path to the stars. Apply by Dec 15, 2025, at 5 PM EST. Learn more: https://irg.space/scholarships/2026-scholarships/ #IRG #STEM #Scholarships

The Interstellar Research Group is now accepting 2026 scholarship applications for undergrad, master’s, and doctoral students in the U.S. Three $2,500 awards for those shaping humanity’s future among the stars. Apply by Dec 15, 2025: https://irg.space/scholarships/2026-scholarships/ #IRG

Shape humanity’s interstellar future. The Interstellar Research Group seeks visionary leaders to join its Board of Directors. Help guide the global pursuit of interstellar flight and exploration. Apply by Dec 10, 2025: https://ow.ly/glbc50XpLNt #SpaceLeadership #IRG

This describes five ideas for interstellar travel. As a spoiler, in summary... - Brute-force 'Project Daedalus' - Laser Sail - Bussard Ramjet - Antimatter 'Project Valkyrie' - the 'Light Hugger' Other concepts involve breaking physics, these (just) avoid that. Comments? youtu.be/xJSO-ptwYxw?...

Issue 50 of Principium is now published - Lead Feature : BOOK REVIEW, The Ross 248 Project. - Project Hyperion - Breakthrough Disc - "Where do you look for ET" - IAC25 - The Journals - Interstellar News .. and more ! Read it here : - i4is.org/principium-50/ Editor: @johninghamdavies.bsky.social

My latest starship blog for the Initiative for Interstellar Studies (@i4interstellar.bsky.social): i4is.org/3i-atlas-the...

My paper with Avi Loeb and Adam Crowl on the subject of bringing Juno as close to 3I/ATLAS as possible: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

🌌 Announcing the Winners of the Project Hyperion Design Competition 🌌 ... hosted by i4iS. Can we imagine a society that thrives on the journey to the stars? 🏆 Winners 🥇 Chrysalis 🥈 WFP Extreme 🥉 Systema Stellare Proximum Plus 10 mentions... Full details are here : www.projecthyperion.org

Our astrodynamicist @adamsspaceresearch.bsky.social is presenting on "Flying to a Potentially Hazardous Object..." on 20Sep25 with T Marshall Eubanks, hosted by the BIS. They'll present research into a mission to PHO 2024 YR4, which may hit the Moon in 2032. www.bis-space.com/event/bis-we...

Here's an interesting paper by our member @adamsspaceresearch.bsky.social et al. There's been criticism that it proposes alien origin for 3/Atlas, but it says that is not so : it's an academic exercise mentioning our habit of seeing pattern in randomness. Please comment! arxiv.org/abs/2507.12213

Go to my starshp blog for i4is which can be found here: i4is.org/wp-admin/pos... It raises a hypothetical question and mentions the various evidence in favour. It emphasises that the investigations are merely a pedagogical exercise. @i4interstellar.bsky.social Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2507.12213

Here's a recent video from @hoojiwana.bsky.social talking about the recent 'Pulsar Fusion' publicity. Are his conclusions correct ? Or will Pulsar take us to the stars ? Comments are welcome !!

This could be interesting, especially if @adamsspaceresearch.bsky.social can find a good spacecraft rendezvous option ...

Inflatable sails offer steep savings in mass & enable larger payloads. I look today at deep space concepts involving this technology, & new studies on using inflatable structures for exoplanet research via a starshade. www.centauri-dreams.org/2025/06/11/i...

Registration is open for the 9th Interstellar Symposium in Austin, Texas, 12-15 October 2025. irg.space/2025-irg-9th...

Exciting voluntary role ! Do you know layout software? We need a new voluntary Layout Editor for our quarterly online magazine Principium. We provide the software and training. The team will supply the content; you would put it all together. Join our commitment to expanding humanity’s horizons!

Here's another excellent video by @fcain.universetoday.com describing a breakthrough in light sail technology... youtu.be/iHLm9oHMsyM?...

We are leading two 1-day Workshops at The Royal Institution in London for young space scientists/engineers/dreamers ! "Skateboards to Starships" - Age 12–14 : 07Aug25 www.rigb.org/whats-on/hol... - Age 15–18 : 08Aug25 www.rigb.org/whats-on/hol... Led by @johninghamdavies.bsky.social & others

From 2024, here's the Project Lyra* mission guide by @adamsspaceresearch.bsky.social in a starship blog on our website. i4is.org/project-lyra... * Project Lyra is the study of missions to chase down the interstellar object 11/'Oumuamua, in order to determine once and for all what this thing is...

This is everywhere in the news today ... "The Cambridge group has found that the atmosphere seems to contain the chemical signature of at least 1 of 2 molecules... associated with life: dimethyl sulphide and dimethyl disulphide. On Earth ... produced by marine phytoplankton and bacteria."

Again, a fusion-powered interplanetary spacecraft would be good for Interstellar precursor trips, and the technology could be developed for true Interstellar missions.

Here are videos from the recent Symposium... "... keynote presentations ... tackling the challenges of humanity’s journey to the stars ... propulsion breakthroughs, astrobiology, long-duration missions ... dive deep into the technologies, ethics, and aspirations... " youtube.com/playlist?lis...

If you're in Oxford UK on April 23-24, here's an interesting event focusing on #Interstellar life and more. If you're going to attend please contact our magazine editor @johninghamdavies.bsky.social < [email protected] >, he'll be there reporting for us. web.cvent.com/event/fa7350...

Here's an article by @universetoday.com referencing a paper by our member Adam Hubbard ( @adamsspaceresearch.bsky.social ) ... www.universetoday.com/articles/rem...

You have three more days to apply !

The new issue of Principium, P48, is now published, including reports from : - the recent European Interstellar Symposium (Luxembourg) - the Interstellar session at IAC2024 (Milan) ...and much more... i4is.org/publications...

Ernst Öpik, long at Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland, wrote about the Oort Cloud before Oort found it, & in several hundred papers discussed everything from binary stars to interstellar flight. Ahead of his time. Interesting figure! www.centauri-dreams.org/2025/02/25/e...

redesigned this ship again, it can now take 600 people from sol to proxima centauri in only 15.6 years. weighs ~416 kT dry and ~5,665 kT wet

Our monthly newsletter is a member-only benefit, but we post them on LinkedIn a few months in arrears. To receive the latest copy, join now ! www.i4is.org/members Here's the Nov 2024 newsletter, covering Electric Propulsion, the Fermi Paradox, Wormholes + more. www.linkedin.com/pulse/i4is-n...?

27 February 2025, 2:30-3pm EST Tod Lauer of NOIRLab will be speaking on: "A Demonstration of Interstellar Navigation Using new Horizons" zoom.us/j/9731769763... Meeting ID: 973 1769 7636 Passcode: 802327 Recordings are archived and posted at: pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/...

If the Dark Forest theory is true, then life in the galaxy must be incredibly common. Here’s why: Biomarkers, the chemical signatures of life, have existed on Earth for over a billion years.

Here's some great Artwork, just released! Event Dates: October 12-15, 2025 Location: The University of Texas at Austin Learn more: irg.space

For anyone travelling towards Orion, here is what you would see ....

Perhaps we don't need to travel to the stars, the material from them is coming to us ... ... but no, we still need to go there to be sure !!

Here's an interesting blog post from @adamsspaceresearch.bsky.social ... if 2024YR4 did impact the Earth, how do we improve our estimate of the likely impact energy ? He tells us how... i4is.org/the-impact-e...

The Davie Postdoctoral Fellowship in Artificial Intelligence for Astronomy is a chance to dig deep into the tools that can ferret unusual and perhaps technological signatures out of extremely large datasets. More from SETI Institute here: www.centauri-dreams.org/2025/02/07/p...

The Bernal Sphere was an early (1929) concept for a large-scale space habitat, either in the solar system or beyond....

Our member @adamsspaceresearch.bsky.social has proposed a sample return mission to asteroid 2024 YR4, in the news with a comparatively high chance (perhaps~1.3%) of hitting Earth in 2032. If it DOES hit & no mission had been sent, people would be annoyed ! Here's his blog : i4is.org/2024-yr4-and...

Our member @adamsspaceresearch.bsky.social has proposed a sample return mission to asteroid 2024 YR4, in the news with a comparatively high chance (perhaps~1.3%) of hitting Earth in 2032. If it DOES hit & no mission had been sent, people would be annoyed ! Here's his blog : i4is.org/2024-yr4-and...

Here's an interesting 30 minute conversation about many aspects of Interstellar travel...

In London on 13th February ? If so, this event may be of interest. Title: ‘Children of Another Sun’ Speaker: Paul Fellows Venue: BIS HQ and online This talk looks at the discovery of planets orbiting other stars. How many have we found? What is their nature ? www.bis-space.com/event/evenin...

Please do go to my recent starship blog for the 'Initiative for Interstellar Studies' (i4is). i4is.org/tunguska-and...

Here's our October 2024 newsletter, just posted (in arrears) on LinkedIn... www.linkedin.com/posts/initia...

Here's a detailed paper describing a system with three super-Earth planets, one at least in the habitable zone... www.aanda.org/articles/aa/...

Words from this paper : "This technology development will be revolutionary as it will enable missions such as Heliopause and Solar Gravitational Lens at the far reaches of the solar system by achieving an escape velocity from the solar system of 50-60 AU/yr." techport.nasa.gov/projects/146...