Today physicist Stephen Hawking and Russian billionaire Yuri Milner announced the Breakthrough Starshot Project, an initiative to send multiple tiny crafts to the Alpha Centauri star system, some four ...

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Humanity needs to explore the stars. Just for the sake of space booze and scientific advancement, it needs to happen. But how to get there? In a big announcement yesterday, a consortium of scientists ...

Leaders of the mission plan to start funding technology-development projects within months, with the aim of launching a fleet of tiny, laser-propelled probes in the next 20 years. The effort would ...

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 ...

The goal behind the $100 million Breakthrough Starshot initiative is to search Alpha Centauri (the closest star system to Earth, at just 4.37 light-years away) for habitable worlds and alien life. If ...

I was reading the "We can leave the Solar System" article. Ideas reiterated in my own mind while reading the Paul Sutter article, basically on the concept of using the current state of the "tech path" ...

Is Breakthrough Starshot really the most likely way we'd get an up close view of the Earth-like planet near Proxima Centauri? originally appeared on Quora: the knowledge sharing network where ...

Cosmologist Stephen Hawking and billionaire Yuri Milner are unveiling “Starshot,” their new space exploration initiative. Exploring Stephen Hawking's 'Starshot' Project Today physicist Stephen Hawking ...