Researchers develop new design and fabrication method to make lightsails for interstellar travel. In a potential step toward sending small spacecraft to the stars, researchers have developed an ...

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 ...