Breakthrough Starshot is a $10 billion mission to send a tiny, sail-driven probe to the nearest Earth-like planet using ...

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 ...

Getting a spacecraft to another star is a monumental challenge. However, that doesn't stop people from working on it. The most visible groups currently doing so are Breakthrough Starshot and the Tau ...

Researchers are developing a laser-propelled spacecraft the size of a microchip to capture the first-ever images of Proxima b, a potentially Earth-like planet orbiting our nearest neighboring star.

(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 ...

Professor Stephen Hawking onstage during the New Space Exploration Initiative 'Breakthrough Starshot' Announcement at One World Observatory on April 12, 2016 in New York City It takes a bold person to ...

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, ...