Space exploration Stories

In the far, far distant future, on a cosmological time scale unimaginable and incomprehensible to humans, the remnants of humanity evolved from the corporeal to beings of photonic energy, and finally after uncountable eons, to lives of spirit, residing only in the quantum field of consciousness. Not only did humanity change, but so did the universe in which they were formed. They witnessed the star they called Sol burn th...

As we cautiously approached the door, we could hear the sound of whirring and clanking coming from the other side. We exchanged a worried glance before Mate kicked the door open, revealing a scene straight out of a nightmare. Robotic arms and tentacles protruded from every surface of the bridge, controlling the ship with frightening efficiency. The midshipman Robinson, who had started all of this, was nowhere to be seen....

Humanity had decided that the time and technology had arrived to go out and populate other planets. 75 years earlier, when the trip took almost 40 years, scout ships had been sent out to survey other galaxies for a suitable planet, capable of sustaining human life. One was selected and had been carefully surveyed over a period of years. After a number of additional years of research and development, it was finally time to...