The survey will… Read More The scientists behind the Breakthrough Starshot mission are already fine-tuning the design for their nano-probes to increase the odds they’ll survive the trip to ...

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A mission named Breakthrough Starshot also could one day employ a sail and a powerful Earth or space-based laser to journey to Alpha Centauri. Mercury is definitely in need of exploration.

An curved arrow pointing right. Russian billionaire Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking have teamed up on a $100 million project called Breakthrough Starshot that would use lasers to travel to the ...

Propelled to a fifth the speed of light by a laser beam more powerful than a million suns, tiny spacecraft envisioned by the Breakthrough Starshot initiative are depicted around Proxima Centauri b ...

An curved arrow pointing right. A mission to Alpha Centauri backed by Stephen Hawking has been generating a lot of buzz. Not all of the kinks are worked out, however. NASA and Korea Institute of ...

K2-18b exoplanet holds potential for life detection and future human settlement, sparking excitement in space research ...

The program used optimization to “come up with a new design that we didn’t know before.” The project draws inspiration from the Breakthrough Starshot Initiative, tackling one of the initiative’s major ...

Milner, the founder of DST Global, helped fund the $100 million space-exploration project Breakthrough Starshot by Adele by Ted Cruz by Cher by Elton John by Tiffany Haddish by Kerry Washington ...