Paul Gilster

Writer/editor, Centauri Dreams

Paul Gilster is an American writer on aerospace and technology topics whose site, Centauri Dreams, chronicles ongoing research into interstellar flight. He is also the author of Centauri Dreams: Imagining and Planning Interstellar Exploration (2004).

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Written by Paul Gilster

An astronaut in a space suit floating freely in space with Earth partially visible in the bottom foreground against a black background.

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Cosmology

How far beyond Earth will we go to safeguard our species?

Paul Gilster

Two observatory domes with partially open roofs at dusk, set against a backdrop of a dark blue sky and white clouds.

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Astronomy

Distant ruins

Scientists used to scan the skies for messages from alien civilisations. Now they go looking for their ruins

Paul Gilster