A $10 billion initiative called Breakthrough Starshot aims to send a centimeter-wide spacecraft to Proxima Centauri using laser-powered sails, reaching 20% the speed of light. Here's how the mission ...

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 ...

I was reading the "We can leave the Solar System" article. Ideas reiterated in my own mind while reading the Paul Sutter article, basically on the concept of using the current state of the "tech path" ...

The Breakthrough Prize Foundation held a press conference on April 12, 2016. Yuri Milner stands at the podium, left, and Professor Stephen Hawking sits in his wheelchair. The Breakthrough Prize ...

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 ...

Light sail technology is a fascinating concept and a step change in rocket propulsion. It may not be big and impressive like the Saturn V, the Space Shuttle or the new Starship rocket but when it ...

Breakthrough Starshot is an initiative to prove ultra-fast light-driven nanocrafts, and lay the foundations for a first launch to Alpha Centauri within the next generation. Along the way, the project ...

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.

Humanity is doing an increasingly good job of zipping around our solar system to probe things. Data is flowing back. Myriad questions, unanswerable for centuries, are being answered. But we are not ...

(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 ...

If the idea holds that QM is involved in consciousness then it may be very difficult to make a copy. Maybe entangling on one end with a BEC on the other. Then ...