Stations on planet Earth have sent and received messages beamed via laser from NASA’s Psyche spacecraft over 350 million ...

NASA proves laser communication works in space, sending HD video across millions of miles and paving the way for faster data from Mars.

A new type of laser-pointing platform, developed at MIT, Cambridge, Ma, US, may help launch miniature satellites into the high-rate data game. CubeSats have become game-changers in satellite ...

The world of science fiction is obsessed with lasers, but real scientists are not too far behind with that tech in real life, deploying it everywhere from watching cellular reactions to attempting Sun ...

Lasers are some of the coolest devices around. We can use them to cut things, create laser light shows, and also as a rangefinder.[Ignas] wrote in to tell us about [Berryjam’s] AMAZING write-up on ...

On December 11th, 2023, the demonstration achieved a historic first by streaming an ultra-high-definition video to Earth from over 19 million miles away (about 80 times the distance between Earth and ...

Jon Bumstead has created an awesome Arduino powered 13 note midi harp after receiving funding from the optics group Spectra at Washington University in Saint Louis. Watch the video below to learn more ...