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 ...

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 ...

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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The Breakthrough Starshot initiative, announced last year, has one very ambitious goal: to use ...

As a species, we have made magnificent strides in robotic space exploration in the past decade. From exploring Pluto close-up for the first time to discovering our solar system is rife with ...

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 ...