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Earth receives first transmission via laser beam from 16 million kilometres away!
This achievement marks the first time such capabilities have been demonstrated with near-infrared e…
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SpaceX's Polaris Dawn crew returns to Earth victorious, making huge gains in Elon Musk's plans to send humans to Mars
The Polaris missions are helping fast-track Elon Musk's Mars city, from testing spacesuits and a sp…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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India's adorable, dog-sized moon rover did its first science on the moon by shooting powerful laser beams at the surface
The 57-pound moon rover, called Pragyaan — meaning wisdom — has conducted the first-eve…
Sonam Sheth,Morgan McFall-Joh…
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After the Moon, Mars is getting laser-reflecting mirror to help future landings on the Red Planet
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s brand-new Mars Perseverance Rover is currently …
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After 10 years of trying, NASA finally bounced its first-ever laser beam off the lunar orbiter
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has been bouncing lasers off the Moon sinc…
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Earth received a message sent from a deep space laser — it took just 50 seconds to travel 10 million miles
This was NASA's first test of its Deep Space Optical Communications system, which could one day bri…
Marianne Guenot
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Listen to the snap, crackle, pop of NASA's Perseverance rover zapping rocks on Mars with a laser
NASA's Perseverance rover landed on Mars last month. Microphones on board have recorded sounds of t…
Aylin Woodward
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A scientist's simple animation shows why there won't be a way to communicate with astronauts on Mars in real time
Even radio waves and lasers have to travel at the speed of light — which means a serious delay in c…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA's Perseverance rover recorded the screechy sounds of its own driving on Mars
NASA's Perseverance rover landed on Mars last month. Microphones on board have recorded sounds of t…
Aylin Woodward
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TOUCHDOWN ON MARS: NASA's Perseverance rover has landed safely after a supersonic plunge
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has landed in Jezero Crater, beginning a new era of exploration on t…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA's Mars Helicopter recharges its batteries for the very first time en route to the Red Planet
If successful in its mission on Mars, Ingenuity will be the first chopper to fly on a planet oth…
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A startup is developing a 100-gigawatt laser to propel a probe to another star system. That may be powerful enough to 'ignite an entire city.'
The StarChip variant designed for our solar system would be about 100 grams, Klupar said - about 10…
Dave Mosher
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New Methane Discovery On Mars Is 'Disappointing For Many'
"Curiosity is not a life-detection mission, but is there to assess the habitability of the Red Plan…
Dina Spector
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This Cornell Student Is Building The Next Generation Of Rovers So That We Can Colonize Mars
Crowther says most students join the team blindly. They're assigned older mentors for instruction, …
Melia Robinson
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A NASA cat named Taters makes history by starring in the first ultra-HD video streamed from deep space
NASA lasers shot this cat video through deep space faster than the internet sent it here on Earth. …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Erin Sn…
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Marjorie Taylor Greene apologized in private, but in public she has not demonstrated remorse
The Republican from Georgia privately said "sorry" to her colleagues. But in public, she keeps doin…
Charles Davis
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Florida officials are preparing 'contingency plans' for a Trump indictment from New York, report says
The investigation from Manhattan DA Cy Vance could involve different scenarios depending on whether…
Jake Lahut,Sonam Sheth
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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin just launched NASA's new moon-landing technologies into space
NASA gave Blue Origin $3 million to test technology that may make it possible to land on parts of t…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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What Elon Musk's 42,000 Starlink satellites could do for — and to — earth
Elon Musk is hoping to send 42,000 satellites to space to bring high-speed internet to every part o…
Michelle Yan,Bob Hunt,Dave Mo…
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Stephen Colbert mocks Trump for saying he would 'run in there' to stop a school shooter: 'You got five deferments from Vietnam'
"You don't know until you test it, but I think, I really believe I'd run in there, even if I didn't…