Philip Lubin and his team are continuing to make progress toward laser pushed sails. This is a way to achieve significant fractions of the speed of light for interstellar missions and a way to beam ...

Kumar, Jin and John L. Reno of Sandia are reporting another terahertz technology breakthrough: they have developed a new phase-locking technique for plasmonic lasers and, through its use, achieved a ...

Starshot wants to build the world’s most powerful laser and aim it at the closest star. What could go wrong? Starship conferences attract a hopeful crowd: researchers, inventors, and hobbyists ...