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

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

"Chemical rockets that we use today, even with the extra speed boost from flying by planets, or from swinging by the sun for ...

It could be that our future descendants discover an alternative way to stabilize wormholes and allow for interstellar travel ... but that is an engineering problem, not a physics one.

Scientists propose using relativistic electron beams to propel spacecraft, offering a new hope for interstellar travel within ...

And globally, while a number of governments and institutions have invested money in antimatter and space-travel research ... s energy was found, then interstellar and human interplanetary missions ...

Researchers have proposed a new propulsion method that could make covering the vast distances required for interstellar missions feasible within a human lifetime. The fundamental challenge in ...