The famous British scientist Stephen Hawking and Russian businessman Yuri Milner, co-owner of the Internet companies DST Global and Mail.ru Group, announced in New York the launch of the Breakthrough Starshot project worth $100 million. The goal of the mission is to deliver mini-robots to the nearest star in 20 years system...

There is one Russian on the list of “troublemakers”: Mail.ru founder Yuri Milner, who attracted the attention of American journalists with his intention to spend a hundred million dollars on the search for extraterrestrial life. He also represents Russia in the Forbes ranking of the richest IT businessmen. The founder of the largest social network Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg...

Co-founder of Mail.ru Group, Yuri Milner, decided to invest one hundred million dollars in a project to search for extraterrestrial civilizations. As the entrepreneur said at a press conference in London, the idea is to use the most powerful telescopes on Earth, united in a large-scale computer system, to conduct ...