NASA is gearing up to launch an advanced solar sail spacecraft later this month. Using a new boom made of lightweight polymer composites, the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System is scheduled to lift ...

The electric solar wind sail is a propulsion system that uses the solar wind proton flow as a source of momentum for spacecraft thrust. The momentum of the solar wind is transferred to the spacecraft ...

Cruise editor Tom Stieghorst is in Bali for a Star Clippers cruise near the Indonesian island. His fourth dispatch follows. A good part of the appeal of Star Clippers Cruises is that its ships are at ...

Humans have been sailing various seas and oceans for thousands of years, and using boats for potentially even longer than that. But as a species we wouldn’t have made it very far if it was only ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – I’m not sure what explains my interest in sailing. I didn’t grow up around the water. I root for Army over Navy. And on at least three occasions I have been seasick. Perhaps, it has ...

If you search the outer reaches of the internet you will find all sorts of web sites and videos purporting to answer to free energy in the form of perpetual motion machines and other fantastical ...

Jimmy Cornell reflects on a lifetime of inventive, cautious and sometimes unconventional solutions at sea. The post The Art ...