NASA’s Psyche mission is on its way to meet an asteroid that is thought to contain $100,000 quadrillion worth of rare metals.

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

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

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

American space agency NASA announced the completion of the Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment, described as a success.

On Tuesday (April 29), NASA announced that its Psyche probe has suffered a setback concerning its propulsion system while nearly 150 million miles (238 million kilometers) from our planet. The boxy, ...

An innovative experiment flying aboard NASA's Psyche mission just hit its first major milestone by successfully carrying out the most distant demonstration of laser communications. The tech demo could ...

NASA's Psyche mission to visit a gargantuan asteroid — worth, according to some estimates, more than the Earth's entire world economy — has hit a snag. On Tuesday, the space agency announced that ...

Table Mountain Facility, located in California, sent a 3-kilowatt laser beacon to Psyche, which, in response, provided an ...