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

Of all the space laser ideas that have been discussed, DE-STAR is probably the most well-studied and developed. It would ...

DARPA, the U.S. military’s advanced research agency, is funding space laser projects amid simmering concerns that America’s strategic adversaries are already developing this satellite ...

NASA’s laser communications experiment just beamed back a video from space for the first time, and it features a cat named Taters chasing a laser pointer.

The Deep Space Network is aging and needs to be replaced. Our ability to travel to Mars will depend on a reliable communications system. Can lasers do the trick?

Today that technology exists as the Four Laser Guide Star Facility, which operates the ESO’s Very Large Telescope . Coming in at a respectable 22 watts of power, this calibration tool has been ...

Or that a third video cited by space laser conspiracy theorists is actually a time-lapse image of a 2019 SpaceX launch. They’re connecting the dots anyway. Advertisement. Advertisement.

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory launched the Space Wireless Energy Laser Link—or SWELL—late Tuesday to demonstrate laser power beaming in space as part of a scheduled Defense Department ...

In-space manufacturing is a big challenge, even with many of the same manufacturing methods being available as on the ground. These methods include rivets, bolts, but also welding, the latter of ...

Earth just received a laser transmission from a world (and perhaps universe) record-breaking 140 million miles away — which could have major implications for the future of space travel.

NASA’s laser communications experiment just beamed back a video from space for the first time, and it features a cat named Taters chasing a laser pointer.