The latest round of NASA funding to boost the development of advanced concepts includes a space-based neutrino…
A strong enough laser can burn things, clean things, pop things, and most impressively, move things. Yep. Watch this…
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Over the weekend, the LightSail satellite unfurled its gigantic solar sail to help propel it through space. Now, the…
For everything that is good out there, there’s always someone to naysay it. So how to respond when the haters come…
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2,465. That’s the number of satellites that are whipping gracefully around the Earth as you read this.
Stephen Baxter's new novel Proxima includes a sentient solar sail, but this unique type of spacecraft has a long…
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Solar sails are all about "propellantless" propulsion — using photons from the Sun (as opposed to an onboard fuel…
In a series of upcoming technology demonstration missions, NASA is hoping to prove that giant solar sails are a…
A lost scene of Close Encounters of the Third Kind? No, although it will go to space at one point.
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Less than two months after being unfurled in space, Japan's IKAROS solar sail accomplished its ambitious…
Good news for the Little Japanese Solar Sail That Could, as the first images of the solar sail spread out in full…
The 20meter (diagonally) solar sail Ikaros we mentioned last month has been successfully unfurled in space by its…
NASA's getting set to launch the NanoSail-D next week, its first solar-sail powered spacecraft which catches photons…