Caltech scientists are developing laser-driven lightsails that could push spacecraft beyond our solar system. Their research ...

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

"The lightsail will travel faster than any previous spacecraft, with potential to eventually open interstellar distances to ...

The aim is to repurpose the light-harvesting antennae from ... artificial components means the lasers could be effectively re-grown in space – meaning they could be kept in operation without ...

Sailing has been a mainstay of human history for millennia, so it's no surprise that scientists would apply it to traveling ...

LISA is set to revolutionize our understanding of the gravitational universe and the interactions that make the entire cosmos ...

An innovative approach in the search for dark matter using space/time-separated atomic clocks and lasers has yielded ...

A team of scientists has made the first experimental measurements of laser-induced motions of miniature lightsails in the lab.

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

But the vision for Trump’s next-generation system, including space-based lasers, is actually much closer to Ronald Reagan’s so-called Star Wars programme, launched in 1983 at the height of the ...

At the heart of this new model is a dual-laser light source for 5,000 lumens of ... 709 gamut, along with 90% of the DCI-P3 color space for "cinema-grade color accuracy." The DLP projector can ...