BEAVERTON, OR--(Marketwired - Dec 5, 2013) - Act-On Software, a leading provider of cloud-based integrated marketing automation software, today announced that Starshot, a marketing agency focused on ...

Breakthrough Starshot is a $100 million initiative to send a fleet of light-powered spacecraft to our nearest star system at 20% the speed of light.

Russian billionaire Yuri Milner holds a “Sprite” mini-probe like the ones that are being tested in low Earth orbit. (Breakthrough Starshot via YouTube / SciNews) Breakthrough Starshot says it’s been ...

In one of the most ambitious space project announcements of the last few years, the Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner-backed Breakthrough Initiatives has revealed plans for a spacecraft capable of ...

Breakthrough Starshot, estimated to literally get off the ground in 20 years, has the potential to totally change our relationship with space. The technology will employ gram-scale nanocrafts that ...

The goal behind the $100 million Breakthrough Starshot initiative is to search Alpha Centauri (the closest star system to Earth, at just 4.37 light-years away) for habitable worlds and alien life. If ...

When Philip Lubin was a little boy, he would stare at the night sky and wonder where it all came from. Decades later, Lubin, now a physicist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has a plan ...

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Anybody who longs to see an alien world up close got an exciting gift last year. In August, researchers reported the discovery of a potentially habitable, Earth-sized planet orbiting the Sun’s closest ...

Starshot Capital, a climate-focused venture firm, has raised $35 million for its debut fund. The firm was founded by Jeremy Brewer, who's worked at Google and Facebook, and Sam Levac-Levey, who spent ...