NASA's Psyche has set a new benchmark for space communications. In December 2024, the spacecraft successfully beamed an infrared laser message back to Earth from a mind-boggling distance of 494 ...

Lasers have been around for centuries, and over the past few decades, humans have found numerous applications for them. For instance, the US Navy uses lasers to shoot drones out of the sky. You'll ...

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

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

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

Researchers from Trinity College Dublin's School of Engineering have built a powerful new machine that lets us watch precisely what happens when tiny particles—far smaller than a grain of sand—hit a ...

The large-scale enrichment technology testing campaign at Global Laser Enrichment's Test Loop facility in Wilmington, North ...

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 ...

Aerial lasers are also the holy grail of lasers in that they can be used more effectively and suddenly on both defense and ...

Engineers at the UD Research Institute developed a laser system so successful in its initial intended use in composites processing that the institute opened a new lab to exploit the technology into ...