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 ...

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 ...

SpaceX's Starship megarocket could eventually live up to its bold name. "This Starship is designed to traverse our entire solar system and beyond to the cloud of objects surrounding us. A future ...

Chairman of the Breakthrough Prize Foundation and Chairman of Breakthrough Initiatives, Dr. Pete Worden, discusses the Breakthrough Starshot work on the laser propelled solar sail to Proxima Centauri.

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 ...

A recent breakthrough in nanotechnology could drastically accelerate the timeline of future space missions. Scientists from the Delft University of Technology and Brown University have unveiled an ...

(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 ...

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, ...

How small can you make a satellite? The first satellite, Russia's Sputnik, weighed in at about 183 pounds (83 kilograms). Today, many smaller space projects are taking place thanks to inexpensive ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Breakthrough Initiatives are a suite of scientific space exploration programs searching for signatures of life beyond Earth. These efforts include Breakthrough Listen, a search for ...