“The lightsail will travel faster than any previous spacecraft, with potential to eventually open interstellar distances to direct spacecraft exploration that are now only accessible by remote ...

A crowd-funded spacecraft, the LightSail 2, has become the latest to fly on celestial winds. While wind as we know it certainly doesn’t blow in space, the ship can directly harness something ...

Among the many spacecraft and satellites ascending to space on Monday's Falcon Heavy launch, the Planetary Society's LightSail 2 may be the most interesting. If all goes well, a week from launch ...

LightSail will then tack like a sailboat in order to raise its altitude, which will earn it the distinction of being the first spacecraft to sail to a higher orbit around our planet.

Two weeks after entering solar sailing mode, the Planetary Society’s LightSail 2 spacecraft has managed to raise its orbit by nearly 2 miles, in an important test of this promising new means of ...

According to the scientists behind the project, LightSail 2 has successfully raised the highest point of its orbit, and it did so without any conventional built-in propulsion system. It took a ...

The nonprofit Planetary Society says its LightSail 2 experiment spread out its solar sails today, nearly a month after it rode to orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.

The LightSail mission is one small step for a science-fictionish technology called solar sailing, but it's a giant leap for the Planetary Society.

"The lightsail will travel faster than any previous spacecraft, with potential to eventually open interstellar distances to direct spacecraft exploration," Caltech's Harry Atwater, the Otis Booth ...

The Planetary Society deployed LightSail 2, aiming to further demonstrate the potential of the technology for space propulsion.

LightSail Energy has appointed two industry veterans to its executive ranks, as the energy storage startup looks to ramp up sales of its technology. It represents a new phase and test for the five ...