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 ...

A promising space technology remains largely unexploited: solar sails. These lightweight structures, propelled by the ...

Starshot is an interstellar travel expedition unlike any other before it. Yuri Milner’s Breakthrough Starshot is an interstellar travel expedition unlike any other before it. It’s many years in the ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American A couple of weeks ago the world heard about ...

(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 ...

Physics sets unforgiving limits on how fast anything can move, yet the same laws also leave surprising room for creative ways to cross the gulf between stars. The real question is not whether the ...