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 ...

How soon could we really reach Alpha Centauri A? This documentary goes beyond Breakthrough Starshot to explore the most ...

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 ...

The big thinkers at Aperture break down Breakthrough Starshot and its ambitions to reach other stars. 'Massive betrayal': ...

(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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Intriguing radio signals have been picked up via the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia. (NRAO Photo) Breakthrough Listen, a $100 million initiative aimed at stepping up the search for alien ...