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

In December 2024, the spacecraft successfully beamed an infrared laser message back to Earth from a mind-boggling distance of ...

If it pans out, it may complicate Elon Musk’s dreams of founding a settlement on the fourth planet from the sun.

Since Psyche launched in 2023, NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) technology test has seen the mission beam a series of messages back to Earth via laser. The spacecraft’s 65th and final ...

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

Aliens may have been closer to Earth than first thought. New research from NASA reveals that Ceres, the dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, harbored the right conditions to ...

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 ...

The Habitable Worlds Observatory is poised to tell us whether Earthlike planets are common—if it can get off the ground ...

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

Lara Waldrop, professor in Engineering, will lead the first National Aeronautics and Space Administration mission by a ...