A $10 billion initiative called Breakthrough Starshot aims to send a centimeter-wide spacecraft to Proxima Centauri using ...

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In one of the most ambitious space project announcements of the last few years, the Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner-backed Breakthrough Initiatives has revealed plans for a spacecraft capable of ...

Russian billionaire Yuri Milner holds a “Sprite” mini-probe like the ones that are being tested in low Earth orbit. (Breakthrough Starshot via YouTube / SciNews) Breakthrough Starshot says it’s been ...

Breakthrough Starshot, estimated to literally get off the ground in 20 years, has the potential to totally change our relationship with space. The technology will employ gram-scale nanocrafts that ...

When Philip Lubin was a little boy, he would stare at the night sky and wonder where it all came from. Decades later, Lubin, now a physicist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has a plan ...

A team of researchers at the California Institute of Technology has taken a hard look at the challenges facing efforts to carry out the Breakthrough Starshot project. In their Perspective piece ...

As a species, we have made magnificent strides in robotic space exploration in the past decade. From exploring Pluto close-up for the first time to discovering our solar system is rife with ...