Ultra-thin sail could speed journey to other star systems A tiny sail made of the thinnest material known—one carbon-atom-thick graphene—has passed initial tests designed to show that it could be a viable material to make […]
What’s the best way to sail from world to world? Electric sails or solar sails? In the past decade, thousands of planets have been discovered beyond our solar system. This has had the effect of […]
Harvard Scientists Suggest Weird Interstellar Object Oumuamua Could Be an Alien Solar Sail On October 19th, 2017, the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System-1 (Pan-STARRS-1) in Hawaii announced the first-ever detection of an interstellar […]