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Robinhood's cofounder has joined the rapidly growing commercial space race, and wants to beam solar power from satellites to earth
A report from McKinsey earlier in 2024 estimated that the global space economy will be worth $1.8 t…
Polly Thompson
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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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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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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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Satellites could soon beam clean power down to Earth — all details here
The idea of space-based weapons has been orbiting around and now space agencies are thinking about …
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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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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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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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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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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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NASA's lunar probe is going to photograph the Indian moon lander today
According to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Vikram isn’t broken — it’s only ly…
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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 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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NASA will soon launch cube-shaped robots to spy on astronauts
"Right now when they want to see inside the space station, there are some camcorders set up, but th…
Dave Mosher
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Scientists: We can hide Earth from belligerent aliens by blinding them with lasers
Contact with unknown civilizations with technology more advanced than ours' might be dangerous, at …
Sarah Kramer
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NASA has a plan to take the most detailed scans the world's forests ever
A 2004 study on the "source versus sink" question laments that "there are no tropical forest sites …
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NASA has detected a burst of light that might be linked to one of the most monumental space discoveries ever made
LIGO is just one key way scientists hope to hunt for gravitational waves. It currently consists of …