"The lightsail will travel faster than any previous spacecraft, with potential to eventually open interstellar distances ... Initiative's vision of laser-driven space travel.

This is research that could help advance the Breakthrough Starshot Initiative's vision of laser-driven space ... travel faster than any previous spacecraft, with potential to eventually open ...

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

An interstellar spacecraft would not simply be a scaled-up version of today's spaceships but a structure ... psychological hurdles to prolonged space travel. Such a ship must be not only a high ...

"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 ...

Space Piracy is a classic theme of science fiction, but is there chance we'll see it in the future? We'll examine how it might develop in the next century around asteroid mining and how it might occur ...

But in space ... as the spaceship gets closer. You won’t be getting a nicely spread-out set of messages announcing their arrival long before they are very close. “Interstellar spacecraft ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners ... pose significant challenges for reaching interstellar space in a human lifetime, especially with limited room ...