BEAVERTON, OR--(Marketwired - Dec 5, 2013) - Act-On Software, a leading provider of cloud-based integrated marketing automation software, today announced that Starshot, a marketing agency focused on ...

Russian billionaire Yuri Milner holds a “Sprite” mini-probe like the ones that are being tested in low Earth orbit. (Breakthrough Starshot via YouTube / SciNews) Breakthrough Starshot says it’s been ...

In one of the most ambitious space project announcements of the last few years, the Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner-backed Breakthrough Initiatives has revealed plans for a spacecraft capable of ...

Breakthrough Starshot, estimated to literally get off the ground in 20 years, has the potential to totally change our relationship with space. The technology will employ gram-scale nanocrafts that ...

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A promising space technology remains largely unexploited: solar sails. These lightweight structures, propelled by the ...

The goal behind the $100 million Breakthrough Starshot initiative is to search Alpha Centauri (the closest star system to Earth, at just 4.37 light-years away) for habitable worlds and alien life. If ...

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When Philip Lubin was a little boy, he would stare at the night sky and wonder where it all came from. Decades later, Lubin, now a physicist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has a plan ...

A team of researchers at the California Institute of Technology has taken a hard look at the challenges facing efforts to carry out the Breakthrough Starshot project. In their Perspective piece ...

Starshot Capital, a climate-focused venture firm, has raised $35 million for its debut fund. The firm was founded by Jeremy Brewer, who's worked at Google and Facebook, and Sam Levac-Levey, who spent ...

The nanocraft will be small with a mass of "several grams." Size does matter---I'll tell you why. The primary propulsion will come from a ground-based 100 GigaWatt laser and a 1-square-meter solar ...