The Canpous star resides in the constellation Carina and can be seen with naked eyes during dark skies. It is best seen in Southern Hemisphere. In the constellation Boötes, easily identifiable in ...

"The lightsail will travel faster than any previous spacecraft, with potential to eventually open interstellar distances to ...

An open letter to any friendly aliens who are considering making first contact with Earth soon: If I've learned anything from ...

Unlike in earlier series entries, where futuristic goals like reaching Alpha Centauri or establishing the first colonies in ...

The idea of a lightsail comes from the fact that radiation pressure represents a mechanical pressure acting on a surface due ...

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

Sailing has been a mainstay of human history for millennia, so it's no surprise that scientists would apply it to traveling ...

Caltech researchers develop a platform to characterize ultrathin membranes for lightsails, advancing the quest for ...

Civilization VII does the unthinkable and upends one of the series’s most enduring precepts. Instead of a single, relentless ...

Tiny spaceships could be accelerated by lasers so that they reach the nearest star in 20 years. That's the theory. Now it's ...

A team of scientists has made the first experimental measurements of laser-induced motions of miniature lightsails in the lab.

Scientists are developing miniature lightsails that could travel at unprecedented speeds, potentially enabling interstellar ...