A recent breakthrough in nanotechnology could drastically accelerate the timeline of future space missions. Scientists from ...

There are many wonderful places we’d like to visit in the universe, and probably untold numbers more that we haven’t even seen or heard of yet. Unfortunately…they’re all so darn far away.

Researchers at TU Delft and Brown University have developed scalable nanotechnology-based lightsails that could support ...

Sailing has been a mainstay of human history for millennia, so it's no surprise that scientists would apply it to traveling in space. Solar sailing, the most common version, uses pressure from the ...

A new method for manufacturing lightsails that can reach up 20% of the speed of light is making the technology look more ...

Scientists have taken an exciting step toward sending tiny spacecraft to other stars. A team from Brown University in the U.S ...