Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2016 billionaire Yuri Milner hosted a press conference at One World Observatory, the atrium topping the slick skyscraper at the ...

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The biggest hurdle to mounting an interstellar mission may be humanity's short attention span. It'll take several decades of sustained, focused, coordinated and costly work to pull off a project such ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Launching the first-ever interstellar mission won't be easy. On Tuesday (April 12), a group of ...

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 ...