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

A marathon runner himself, Cosimo Bambi likens the quest for interstellar travel to a long-distance race, saying his proposal ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

It sounds like science fiction: a spacecraft, no heavier than a paperclip, propelled by a laser beam and hurtling through ...

A bold new proposal envisions launching laser-propelled nanocraft to a nearby black hole to test Albert Einstein's theory of ...

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 ...

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