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

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

Hubble Space Telescope imagery created an HD look at the gas giant planet Jupiter. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

The Mars Telecommunications Orbiter (MTO) isn’t a new idea. Conceived in the early 2000s, the project aimed to deliver ...

In this infrared photograph, the Optical Communications Telescope Laboratory at JPL's Table Mountain Facility near Wrightwood ...

Addendum includes additional images and data from Firefly’s 60-day lunar mission, including lunar transit and surface ...

Plus: Why are hurricanes so powerful? Are winds on other planets like they are on Earth? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in ...