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

Here’s a look at the life of renowned theoretical physicist, cosmologist, astronomer and mathematician, Stephen Hawking. Personal Birth date: January 8, 1942 Death date: March 14, 2018 Birth place: ...

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

A revolutionary propulsion concept using light sails could one day allow small spacecraft to travel between stars at ...

Perhaps time travel into the past is forbidden for exactly these reasons, according to Stephen Hawking's chronology ... with an unchanged past. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket ...

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 ...

In partnership with Intrepid Travel. Welcome to India ... UK daily newspaper The Independent placed him alongside Stephen Hawking and the Astronomer Royal, Professor Sir Martin Rees, as one ...

This is research that could help advance the Breakthrough Starshot Initiative's vision of laser-driven space travel. Lightsails are a more generic form of solar sail, in that they use radiation ...

This comes just ten years after one of the greatest minds of in a generation, Stephen Hawking, warned that forging ahead with this may not be a great idea. The theoretical physicist, who died of ...