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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

“Our analysis shows that the blast was sparked by a catastrophic encounter with a black hole companion, and is the strongest ...

Black holes don’t just warp space, they sing. And now, for the first time, we’ve figured out what their cosmic echoes really sound like.