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 ...

LightSail 2 just met its fiery end, but solar sailing is just getting started The latest LightSail mission gave us a glimpse into the future of solar sailing.

The Planetary Society's solar-sailing spacecraft LightSail 2 beamed back its first views of Earth on Sunday (July 7). And you can keep close tabs on the little satellite — here's how.

After more than three years circling the Earth, the Planetary Society’s LightSail 2 mission has come to an end following a fiery reentry. The satellite was an important tech demo for the idea of ...

LightSail launched May 20 on a mission to prove out some key components of solar-sailing technology — for example, attitude-control and sail-deployment systems — ahead of a more involved ...

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 ...