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

Scientists have unlocked a revolutionary way to generate proton beams using high-powered lasers and a simple stream of water.

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

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

Scientists have developed a method for generating fast, bright proton beams using a high-repetition-rate laser-plasma ...

The idea of a lightsail comes from the fact that radiation pressure represents a mechanical pressure acting on a surface due ...

US president orders work on defence shield going beyond Ronald Reagan’s ‘Star Wars’ programme that could trigger nuclear arms ...

Since the researchers know that a lightsail in space would not always remain perpendicular to a laser source on Earth, they next angled the laser beam to mimic this and again measured the force ...

revealing how the material reacted to the laser beam. Ultimately, these findings will help develop space-ready lightsails—one of the most promising vehicles for interstellar travel, as they rely ...

In 2014, the US Navy installed its first prototype SSL (solid state laser) capable of countering surface craft and unmanned ...