NASA uses the International Space Station — a football field-sized spacecraft orbiting Earth — to learn more about living and working in space. For over 20 years, the space station has provided a ...

Making the network go "pew pew" NASA picked up a laser signal fired from an instrument that launched with the Psyche spacecraft, which is currently more than 16 million kilometres from Earth and ...

NASA is currently eyeing the creation of advanced, scalable, and affordable laser communications systems with the help of small businesses and private industry partners under Artemis. According to ...

An experimental test of laser communications riding along with the Psyche mission has sent back its first data, in a demonstration of the use of laser communications for deep space missions. The Deep ...

The final piece to NASA's first two-way laser communication relay system will soon launch to the International Space Station (ISS). The ILLUMA-T terminal, which is about the size of a large chest, ...

The milestone could help researchers better locate objects on the lunar surface. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Reflect on this!

Fast communications could speed up science on the asteroid mission. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A NASA laser just fired ...

NASA used a laser for the first time to stream a video of an orange cat back to Earth from nearly 19 million miles away, the space agency announced Monday. The ultra-high definition 15-second video, ...