While the raw speed isn't too impressive, it was achieved using a laser with less power than an energy-saving lightbulb.

Thanks to decades of Hollywood influence, when we think of lasers we typically think of laser beams. But this conception is actually quite misguided, as lasers need very specific circumstances in ...

Thought your Internet speeds were slow? Try being a space scientist for a day. The vast distances involved will throttle data rates to a trickle. You’re lucky if a spacecraft can send more than a few ...

The U.S. Space Force aims to better pinpoint the location of Earth's true center using lasers on GPS satellites slated to launch in 2025. A set of laser retroreflector arrays, or LRAs, will be ...

A team of scientists has sifted through two decades’ worth of climate data collected by NASA laser pulses that it says both paints a sobering picture and underscores the need for such missions to ...

The backbone of the internet is formed by a dense network of fibre- optic cables, each of which transports up to more than 100 terabits of data per second (1 terabit = 1012 digital 1/0 signals) ...

As part of her opposition to House Speaker Mike Johnson's foreign aid package, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene introduced a slew of amendments to the bills Wednesday, including one that directs funding ...

Space-based solar power advances with microwave and laser transmission, orbital assembly, and cost reductions, aiming for ...

Jules Verne is often praised as the writer who put the “science” into science fiction, capturing the imagination of an entire generation with his novel From the Earth to the Moon, published in 1865.

Photosynthesis efficiently captures and converts sunlight into something usable — so why not steal a trick from nature for our own solar-powered lasers? When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

Since the advent of the Space Age, we've always relied on radio frequency communications to "chat" with both astronauts and spacecraft in orbit and beyond. But now, NASA is leveling up its ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — A team of scientists has sifted through two decades’ worth of climate data collected by NASA laser pulses, and say it both paints a sobering picture and underscores the need for such ...