Making the network go "pew pew" NASA picked up a laser signal fired from an instrument that launched with the Psyche spacecraft, which is currently more than 16 million kilometres from Earth and ...

Taters the cat is the star of a new video that NASA streamed back to Earth using a high powered laser from a record-setting 19 million miles away. NASA advisor Dr. Paul Sutter explains how the laser ...

Final tests of NASA's laser beam communication technology suggests we'll soon have a new way to keep in touch with astronauts and spacecraft venturing into deep space.

But speaking specifically, the organization’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) division just downlinked 15 terabits ...

When Darwin Quiroz first started working with optics as an undergraduate, he was developing atomic magnetometers. That ...

NASA scientists successfully brought an asteroid sample back to Earth in September, making them the first U.S. space agency to do so. All they have to do now is figure out how to open the Touch-and-Go ...

Fast communications could speed up science on the asteroid mission. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A NASA laser just fired ...

NASA is currently eyeing the creation of advanced, scalable, and affordable laser communications systems with the help of small businesses and private industry partners under Artemis. According to ...

NASA beamed ultra-high definition video of a cat named Taters back to Earth from nearly 19 million miles away, the space agency said Monday. The 15-second cat video was sent to Earth as an experiment ...