Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Antimatter engines could propel humanity into the next phase of spaceflight, but building them for spacecraft is still a long way ...

Antimatter can produce more energy than anything else we know of, but it’s very fickle. A new field analysis explains what we need in order to progress with antimatter propulsion. While an antimatter ...

Why it matters: Warp speeds, hyperdrives, and hyperspace jumps – sci-fi has teased us with the prospect of zipping between stars for decades now. But thanks to technological limitations, we are yet to ...

An exchange between SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has brought renewed attention to one of the most ambitious concepts in space exploration: antimatter propulsion. Musk ...

Interstellar travel is only something humanity has achieved in science fiction — like Star Trek's USS Enterprise, which used antimatter engines to travel across star systems. But antimatter isn't just ...