Pasadena, CA — Ohio State University researchers have found a way to measure distances to objects three times farther away in outer space than previously possible, by extending a common measurement ...

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

In a major step toward high-speed space internet, NASA has successfully exchanged laser-encoded messages with a spacecraft over 350 million kilometers from Earth. The story, reported by IFLScience, ...

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, farther away than the Sun, has sent data through a laser over a record-breaking distance, and done so even faster than expected. Using light could drastically speed up that ...

In a major milestone for space technology, China has successfully fired a precision laser across 80,778 miles (130,000 km) of space in broad daylight, reaching the Moon and returning with accurate ...

Trying to measure the size of the universe is no easy task. We know that the universe is expanding, though the exact rate of this expansion is not yet fixed. So one method that astronomers use to tell ...

Join us on a captivating adventure through the vastness of the cosmos as we traverse the sizes and scales of what lies around us in space! From tiny dust particles that slowly swirl together under the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted some of the earliest and most distant galaxies, but how can we be sure these early galaxies aren't closer and more recent? When you purchase through links on ...

China is catching up to the U.S. military’s space capabilities at an “incredible pace," said Lt. Gen. Douglas Schiess.

What is the nature of dark energy, a recently discovered dominant constituent of the universe today? Is expansion-accelerating dark energy an intrinsic property of space-time itself or rather a field ...