INNOVATOR Q&A At Brown, engineers work on laser-powered lightsails that could make it to Mars in hours instead of months A highly reflective lightsail pushed by light energy in the same way ...

Nature Communications – Pentagonal photonic crystal mirrors: scalable lightsails with enhanced acceleration via neural topology optimization. The Starshot Breakthrough Initiative aims to send ...

New lightsails could help cut space travel time from millennia to decades Researchers from Brown created more efficient lightsails, which are thin membranes that can be accelerated by light. Richard ...

Lightsails should enable space missions to other stars. Researchers from the USA and the Netherlands have significantly improved their design.

Since its launch in 1977, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has traveled over 15 billion miles into deep space. That’s a long way — but it’s not even 1% of the distance to Alpha Centauri, the nearest star ...

Lightsails have the potential to reduce flight time to nearby stars from several thousand years using current propulsion systems to perhaps just a decade or two. Now, a team of researchers from Brown ...

Lightsails have the potential to reduce flight time to nearby stars from several thousand years using current propulsion systems to perhaps just a decade or two. Now, a team of researchers from Brown ...

Lightsails have the potential to reduce flight time to nearby stars from several thousand years using current propulsion systems to perhaps just a decade or two.

How can lightsail technology advance to help humanity travel to other star systems? This is what a recent study published in Nature Communications hopes to address as an international team of ...

Researchers at TU Delft (The Netherlands) and Brown University have developed scalable nanotechnology-based lightsails that could support future advances in space exploration and experimental physics.

Researchers at TU Delft and Brown University have developed scalable nanotechnology-based lightsails that could support future advances in space exploration and experimental physics. Their ...