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

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

Interestingly, the spacecraft would use an innovative propulsion method: lightsails. These types of reflective sails use the pressure from lasers or starlight to propel spacecraft. These ultrathin ...

The Znamya project had the potential to change the world. The BBC's Tomorrow's World reported on an experiment that was ...

FIRST release new double A-side single ‘Spacecraft’ / ‘Sailing’ ahead of first ever world tour! BE:FIRST, a seven-member Japanese boyband who are currently preparing to embark on their first ever ...

The idea of traveling through interstellar space using spacecraft propelled by ultrathin sails may sound like the stuff of sci-fi novels. But in fact, a program started in 2016 by Stephen Hawking ...

HELSINKI — China will launch a pair of low-cost space station resupply spacecraft this year on new commercial launch vehicles ...

As early as the 1950s and ‘60s, science fiction writers John Campbell, Arthur C. Clarke and others were toying with the idea of “solar sails” for spacecraft propulsion. A program started in 2016 by ...

While most of us were fast asleep last night, two determined officers reached a point on Earth where the closest humans were ...

A team of scientists has made the first experimental measurements of laser-induced motions of miniature lightsails in the lab. The idea of traveling through interstellar space using spacecraft ...