Physicist Stephen Hawking and Russian billionaire Yuri Milner are teaming up on a project called Breakthrough Starshot which aims to send nanocrafts into space with the hopes of finding alien life forms.

Two prominent personalities have teamed up in a quest to find extraterrestrial life. 
ABC News is reporting that astrophysicist Stephen Hawking and Russian billionaire Yuri Milner are part of a team embarking on a $100 million space initiative called Breakthrough Starshot. 
The project involves sending thousands of nanocrafts to space. The small starships would be propelled at the incredibly fast rate of up to one-fifth the speed of light through the power of an advanced laser syste