Miniature spaceships the size of cellphones could fly across the solar system using sails propelled by lasers, reaching distant destinations on very reasonable timescales.

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Home » Space » Laser arrays for propelling spaceships can also be used like nuclear cannon weapons. ... A large moon based laser array for accelerating spaceships and probes to Mars or on interstellar ...

Russian scientists have proposed a novel way to accelerate a spaceship while in flight – firing a ground-based laser up its backside. The new technique uses a plasma flow caused by laser ...

Space Invaders had a “revolutionary impact,” Taito told the BBC in 2013. “It helped lay the foundation for modern video games.” That impact led to a video game boom that would soon inspire ...

No, the astronomers at the European Southern Observatory are not playing a galactic-scale Space Invaders. They are just exciting atoms in the upper atmosphere, creating an artificial star 56 miles ...

Fans of Dhar Mann's YouTube channel were saddened to learn of the death of one of the channel's stars, Carl Judie, in February 2021. Here's what happened.

In 2003, NASA took a leap in laser technology, powering an 11-ounce aircraft with a 6-watt engine completely by laser beam inside a large building at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.