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 attempting to launch a laser-propelled probe to Proxima b, potentially within our lifetimes. But the ...

Starshot is an interstellar travel expedition unlike any other before it. Yuri Milner’s Breakthrough Starshot is an interstellar travel expedition unlike any other before it. It’s many years in the ...

A powerful burst of laser light from a massive array on Earth strikes a reflective sail bearing a postage-stamp-sized Starchip, sending it on a fast trip to Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system ...

MOSCOW, 13 April (BelTA - TASS) - World-famous theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking and Russian businessman Yuri Milner on Tuesday announced the launch of $100 million space ...

(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 ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: It may be possible for a swarm of ultralight nanocrafts—propelled by a laser and traveling at a third of the speed of light—to make it to a black ...

Explore the thrill of humanity observing distant stars and exoplanets, featuring breakthroughs like Breakthrough Starshot and ...

Assuming there is intelligent life on alpha centauri. I'm not sure how I feel about shooting them with relativistic bullets. They probably won't see them coming until we de-orbit some of their ...