Over the last two decades, Les Johnson and his team of engineers have quietly been pushing NASA into a new era of space exploration while nobody was paying attention. As an engineer at the ...

Scientists are developing miniature lightsails that could travel at unprecedented speeds, potentially enabling interstellar ...

It would sail the cosmic ocean, driven by the force of starlight in the vastness of space. This animation details the piece-by-piece construction of the LightSail 2 spacecraft, as well as its ...

A team of scientists has made the first experimental measurements of laser-induced motions of miniature lightsails in the lab.

"Chemical rockets that we use today, even with the extra speed boost from flying by planets, or from swinging by the sun for ...

But while this could monumentally change space exploration ... to Mars in just three days – using lasers to power space sails similar to The Planetary Society's LightSail.

On this date, Jan. 23, 1998, shuttle Endeavor soared around the planet on its way to the shuttle program's penultimate mission to the Russian Mir Space Station. On that mission, Andy Thomas ...

The launch followed earlier Thousand Sails/Qianfan constellation satellite ... according to U.S. space tracking data. The second batch have so far performed little orbit raising, suggesting ...

HELSINKI — China launched the fourth batch of 18 satellites for the Thousand Sails megaconstellation early Thursday using a Long March 6A rocket. The Long March 6A lifted off at […] ...