Researchers at TU Delft and Brown University have developed scalable nanotechnology-based lightsails that could support ...

Researchers have developed scalable lightsails, ultra-thin, reflective structures that use laser-driven radiation pressure to achieve incredible speeds.

Lightsails have the potential to reduce flight time to nearby stars from several thousand years using current propulsion ...

What if you could ride light like a sailboat rides the winds across the ocean? While this concept may seem impossible, it's ...

A new collaboration between Brown University and TU Delft has brought us closer to interstellar travel using light-powered ...

Lightsails should enable space missions to other stars. Researchers from the USA and the Netherlands have significantly ...

This is what a recent study published in Nature Communications hopes to address as an international team of researchers developed groundbreaking methods and materials for designing and constructing ...

Previous conceptions of lightsails have imagined them being passively pushed by light from the sun, but Starshot’s laser-based approach requires rethinking the sail’s shape and composition so ...

Researchers at TU Delft and Brown University have developed scalable nanotechnology-based lightsails that could support future advances in space exploration and experimental physics. Their ...