The idea of traveling through interstellar space using spacecraft propelled by ... The team's experiments mark the first step in moving from theoretical proposals and designs of lightsails to actual ...

Interstellar is a great movie, and I'm so glad I saw it. But even if I was rewatching it after 10 years, I don't think it would have had the same impact that it did watching it now for the first time.

While an antimatter engine is very far off, researching it could yield other discoveries as well.

The idea of traveling through interstellar space using spacecraft propelled by ultrathin sails may sound like the stuff of sci-fi novels. But in fact, a program started in 2016 by Stephen Hawking and ...