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

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

A team of engineers has unveiled an ambitious design for a massive 58 km long spacecraft named Chrysalis, capable of carrying ...

Take a tour of Chrysalis, a massive, cylindrical spacecraft designed for the Project Hyperion Design Competition.

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

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 ...

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

A spacecraft named Chrysalis could one day carry 2,400 people to Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to our own. This ...

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

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

In an ambitious and visionary project, a groundbreaking study and design competition produced a conceptual model for a ...

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.