A team of researchers from Texas A&M University has demonstrated the use of laser beams to lift and steer tiny engineered devices without physical contact. The findings from the recent experiment are ...

Minuscule silicon wafers propelled by lasers could be used to steer light sails, helping them travel beyond the solar system ...

If an alien in the Alpha Centauri star system were craving pizza, it would take tens of thousands of years to deliver it using today’s rocket technology. According to a press release, researchers at ...

Alpha Centauri sits more than four light-years away, close enough to fascinate generations of dreamers and far enough to make today’s rockets look painfully limited. At current speeds, a trip there ...

This solution is based on an optical propulsion system. The spacecraft would bear the name “Metajet”, and it already exists—not as a full-sized craft, but as tiny, fully functioning prototypes at ...

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Using even the most advanced rocket propulsion technologies available today, it would take billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of years to reach our nearest star system, Alpha Centauri. The ...

Reaching the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, would take hundreds of thousands of years using current rocket propulsion technology. Researchers in the J. Mike Walker '66 Department of Mechanical ...

Moving an object without touching it sounds like the kind of thing you would expect in a sci-fi movie. Yet researchers at ...

Alpha Centauri sits more than four light-years away, close enough to fascinate generations of dreamers and far enough to make today’s rockets look painfully limited. At current speeds, a trip there ...