A thought experiment conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1960s posed students with a question. What would you do if 1566 Icarus was headed to earth on an impact trajectory?

An innovative new project to continuously monitor thousands of animals at once is getting a boost with a new satellite in space. Project ICARUS (International Cooperation for Animal Research Using ...

Project Icarus is an ambitious five-year study into launching an unmanned spacecraft to an interstellar destination. Headed by the Tau Zero Foundation and British Interplanetary Society, a non-profit ...

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Project Icarus is an ambitious five-year study into launching an unmanned spacecraft to an interstellar destination. Initiated by the British Interplanetary Society, and managed by Icarus Interstellar ...

Project Icarus takes its inspiration from Project Daedalus, a five-year study launched by the British Interplanetary Society in 1973 to determine whether interstellar travel was feasible at all.

With the deeper knowledge provided by the Icarus experiment, scientists in Russia and Germany hope to be able to derive new insights into the life and environment of animals, as well as their ...

Andreas Tziolas is drafting a blueprint for a mission to a nearby star. Here, he discusses how we'll get there -- and why we try. We humans have known for a very long time that going to the stars will ...