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A new spacecraft is circling around Earth. But LightSail 2 doesn't have rockets or even solar panels. Instead, the fuel-free vehicle is soaring through space using the power of the sun's light.

AN ocean of troubles beset them. The tide of time was against them. But persistence has prevailed — and a light sail has unfurled — opening up new possibilities in space travel. The vessel puffs her ...

One week after the Planetary Society's experimental LightSail spacecraft spread its solar sail, satellite watchers reported Sunday that it fell from orbit and broke apart in Earth's atmosphere. Based ...

WASHINGTON — In a June 26 video posted to the Kickstarter crowdfunding website, Bill Nye announced that the Planetary Society surpassed its stretch goal of $1.24 million to fund the 2016 LightSail ...

‘There’s nobody in outer space to push that reset button.’ ‘There’s nobody in outer space to push that reset button.’ Bill Nye’s solar particle-powered spacecraft, LightSail, has lost communication ...

After a six-year effort, The Planetary Society overcame technical and financial difficulties to finally launch its solar sail project into orbit aboard the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. We ...

Bill Nye, the educator and TV personality known as “the Science Guy,” hopes that all systems are go for a planned 2017 deployment of a solar-powered, lightweight space sail to higher orbit. Nye ...

Sunday brought a triumphant moment for the Planetary Society and its chief executive, Bill Nye "the science guy." At 3:47 p.m. ET, four Mylar sails that had been folded inside a small CubeSat (a ...

The Planetary Society's first LightSail mission, due for launch on Wednesday, may be just one small step for a technology that could one day send spaceships to the stars, propelled by solar sails. But ...

The Planetary Society’s LightSail spaceship is due to blast off into space on May 20th as part of its first test flight. However, the craft’s primary mission is currently slated for 2016, and the ...