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

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

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

A nanoship is on its way to a black hole. An astrophysicist wants to send a nanoship (a tiny spacecraft) directly to a black ...

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

If they're just hanging out in space, not doing anything, black holes are hard to spot, but astronomers are getting better at ...

Astronomers using the James Webb telescope have zoomed in on a 'Little Red Dot' that existed just 500 million years after the ...

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's … the Eye of Sauron! Well, sort of. Though the image you're seeing bears a striking resemblance to the jarring symbol ...

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

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