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

SCIENTISTS have unveiled several options to stop 2024 YR4, an asteroid the size of a football pitch from smashing into Earth. It comes after an expert warned that the chance of the giant space ...

Instead, Trump’s order demands the deployment of “space-based interceptors” — a web of satellites, some equipped with lasers. It then calls for the development of another layer of lower-altitude ...

Laser ablation is another technique that could be used where either one or multiple spacecrafts are sent to approach the space rock and fire lasers at it. The lasers would heat up the surface of ...