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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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Blasting the Moon’s surface with super-concentrated Sun beams could help create usable roads for future lunar rovers!
Hence, in an attempt to find on-site solutions, researchers conducted experiments to investigate th…
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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 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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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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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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Space photos from 5 recent moon-landing missions show how tiny engineering errors can cause big problems, like crashing or landing sideways
Moon landings are so complex that even the tiniest mistakes have caused missions to crash or burn. …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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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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Scientists Have Caught A Laser Beam In Flight On Video For The First Time
As for the camera, two features lend it the ability to catch light in action: The 1024 pixels withi…
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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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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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The Newest Wi-Fi Hotspot Is Literally Out Of This World – It’s On The Moon
The Earth’s atmosphere bends the signal as it travels to the Moon – so the four telescopes transmit…
Kabir Singh
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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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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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Warp speeds in 'Star Trek' are achingly slow, and a simple animation of the starship Enterprise by a NASA scientist proves it
However, traveling at a warp factor of 9.9 from one end of the Milky Way galaxy - a body of hundred…
Dave Mosher
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A Kenyan runner finished a marathon in under 2 hours, sprinting at a 4:34-mile pace. Here's why his record doesn't count.
And finally, according to the Economist, Kipchoge also wore a never-before seen version of Nike's V…
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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Mysterious space objects like 'Oumuamua will visit our solar system again. Scientists may intercept the next one with a robotic probe.
In November 2017, Trilling and others published a study suggesting that current telescopes may see …
Dave Mosher
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A superstar ex-Facebook and Google exec is trying to upend a $6B industry with mini-MRIs you can use at home-and she's already testing the technology on animals
Jeff Huber, the vice chairman and founding CEO of $1.6 billion cancer-detecting Silicon Valley star…
Erin Brodwin
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MIT scientists just destroyed a quantum record
The best atomic clocks we have are based on the measurements of spinning atoms. Entangled atoms all…