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

But speaking specifically, the organization’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) division just downlinked 15 terabits of data from the Psyche Mission about 300 million miles from Earth via laser ...

Earth will gain a new robotic companion this week. NASA's latest space telescope, SPHEREx — short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer — is ...

A Pilatus PC-12 aircraft equipped with a portable laser terminal transmitted 4K video to the International Space Station and ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists uncovered bizarre atmospheric structures on Saturn, including drifting “dark ...

Why Sagittarius B2 produces so many stars in comparison to the rest of the galactic center has remained an enduring mystery ...

"This is the observatory's full field of view, a rectangular area about 20 times wider than the full moon." You know how the James Webb Space Telescope is said to be revolutionizing astronomy because ...

NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Typhoon Fanapi on Sept. 17 at 04:45 UTC (12:45 a.m. EDT) and captured this infrared image of its cold cloudtop temperatures. The coldest cloud tops were as cold as ...

Scientists got a never-before-seen look at an area around a large exoplanet 625 light-years away where moons could potentially form.

Astronomers are researching an Earth-like exoplanet that could contain water, according to NASA. The exoplanet, named TRAPPIST-1 e, is being monitored by the James Webb Space Telescope, the most ...