Despite the $100 million Breakthrough Starshot pledge, public accounting shows less than $10 million spending. Philip Lubin (UC Santa Barbara, laser propulsion) received ~$200,000 over eight years.

The big thinkers at Aperture break down Breakthrough Starshot and its ambitions to reach other stars. Rock the Country festival: Artists dropping out amid Kid Rock controversy Whistleblower complaint ...

Laser pushed sails—ultrathin need reflective structures that are square meters but weight a gram. If the sails and the payload each weigh a gram, such a spacecraft could accelerate to one fifth of the ...

The Breakthrough Prize Foundation held a press conference on April 12, 2016. Yuri Milner stands at the podium, left, and Professor Stephen Hawking sits in his wheelchair. The Breakthrough Prize ...

Breakthrough Starshot, a $100 million research program for designing light-propelled spacecraft, already has quite a list of luminary names involved with the project, including Freeman Dyson, Stephen ...

The idea of traveling through interstellar space using spacecraft propelled by ultrathin sails may sound like the stuff of sci-fi novels. But in fact, a program started in 2016 by Stephen Hawking and ...

In 2016 billionaire Yuri Milner hosted a press conference at One World Observatory, the atrium topping the slick skyscraper at the center of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex. Milner had grown ...

(Phys.org)—A small team of researchers at Harvard University who are part of the Breakthrough Starshot team has been testing the likely damage to an interstellar spacecraft traveling at approximately ...

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 research, ...