The spacecraft, no heavier than a gram and propelled to a third of the speed of light by lasers on Earth, would gather ...

An astrophysicist argues that the interstellar mission would be extremely challenging but not completely unrealistic ...

In a paper published in the journal iScience, Bambi lays out a plan to turn such a deep-space mission into reality. If ...

Travel to the event horizon in this amazing new black hole visualization from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Credit: ...

A visionary plan proposes sending a paperclip-sized spacecraft, powered by Earth-based lasers, to a nearby black hole within ...

For a spacecraft like that to reach a black hole in such a relatively short time, there would have to be a black hole 20-25 ...

Nestled within a tiny red galaxy, it dates back 13 billion years -- just 500 million years before the Big Bang -- and shows ...

About 5 billion light-years away from where you're sitting, in one of the most massive galaxies on record, there exists an ...

A tiny spacecraft launched on a laser beam can travel to the nearest black hole within a human lifetime, according to ...

An interstellar mission to a black hole may sound impossibly bold, yet a new concept by astrophysicist Cosimo Bambi of Fudan ...

The first interstellar mission to a black hole could be launched within 30 years - by a spacecraft no heavier than a ...

Astronomers have identified an ultramassive black hole that could be the largest ever measured, hidden in a distant galaxy ...