A promising space technology remains largely unexploited: solar sails. These lightweight structures, propelled by the ...

Breakthrough Starshot, a $100 million research program for designing light-propelled spacecraft, already has quite a list of luminary names involved with the project, including Freeman Dyson, Stephen ...

I was reading the "We can leave the Solar System" article. Ideas reiterated in my own mind while reading the Paul Sutter article, basically on the concept of using the current state of the "tech path" ...

Breakthrough Starshot is a research and engineering project by the Breakthrough Initiatives to develop a proof-of-concept fleet of light sail interstellar probes named Starchip. It is funded by ...

New study assesses where light-powered spacecraft propulsion technology currently stands.

The Breakthrough Prize Foundation held a press conference on April 12, 2016. Yuri Milner stands at the podium, left, and Professor Stephen Hawking sits in his wheelchair. The Breakthrough Prize ...

Researchers at TU Delft and Brown University have developed scalable nanotechnology-based lightsails that could support future advances in space exploration and experimental physics. Their research, ...

MOSCOW, 13 April (BelTA - TASS) - World-famous theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking and Russian businessman Yuri Milner on Tuesday announced the launch of $100 million space ...

(Phys.org)—A small team of researchers at Harvard University who are part of the Breakthrough Starshot team has been testing the likely damage to an interstellar spacecraft traveling at approximately ...