"The lightsail will travel faster than any previous spacecraft, with potential to eventually open interstellar distances to ...

Powered by laser light, this tiny sail lays the groundwork for future advances in lightsail technology and the potential for ...

SpaceX is currently building the most powerful rocket ever, but Musk’s long-term vision goes far beyond Mars. He has hinted ...

Scientists are developing miniature lightsails that could travel at unprecedented speeds, potentially enabling interstellar ...

"Chemical rockets that we use today, even with the extra speed boost from flying by planets, or from swinging by the sun for a boost, just don't have the ability to scale to useful interstellar speeds ...

Scientists’ ideas for travelling to the stars range from the the wholly improbable to the hugely expensive and very difficult ...

While an antimatter engine is very far off, researching it could yield other discoveries as well.

The idea of traveling through interstellar space using spacecraft propelled by ultrathin sails may sound like the stuff of sci-fi novels. But in fact, a program started in 2016 by Stephen Hawking and ...

The idea of lightsails is something out of science fiction. As early as the 1950s and ‘60s, science fiction writers John Campbell, Arthur C. Clarke and others were toying with the idea of “solar sails ...

Scientists at the California Institute of Technology have taken a major step toward developing lightsails that could one day carry tiny spacecraft to distant star systems. The new findings detail ...