Lasers could one day steer solar sails and adjust a satellite's position in outer space, thanks to graphene. An experiment on ...

Recombinant spider silk produced by living organisms, ultra-light carbon fiber composites, and next-generation aerogels are no longer lab curiosities, they are already in hospitals, on battlefields, ...

A laser hit the tiny black cube, and it lurched forward almost at once. That split-second jump, caught during a zero-gravity ...

Space travel has long involved heavy lifting. To reach a destination, the spacecraft has ...

The experiment also showed that tuning the light beam controlled the propulsion—the stronger the laser, the greater the ...

A new collection of chemically diverse dome-celled ultralight aerogels with high porosity and very low density feature elasticity and mechanical properties that remain intact even under extreme ...

A light-driven propulsion could save fuel for space missions. Scientists have tested such a system during an ESA parabolic ...

Parabolic flight tests reveal that gravity had been masking nearly all of graphene aerogel's light-driven propulsive ...

Scientists show laser light can push graphene in space, opening the door to fuel-free movement and control of future ...

Earth is about 71 percent water. An overwhelming 97 percent of that water is found in the oceans, leaving us with only 3 percent in the form of freshwater—and much of that is frozen in the form of ...

Researchers report that, in a parabolic-flight microgravity test, a laser was able to accelerate ultralight graphene aerogels ...