Zap! NASA Betting on Space Lasers for Superfast Calls from Mars
In NASA's eyes, a record-breaking laser-communications test in 2013 was just the beginning.
In NASA's eyes, a record-breaking laser-communications test in 2013 was just the beginning.
The first total solar eclipse to go coast to coast in 99 years is now less than 10 months away, and if you haven't made any solid plans for the Aug. 21, 2017, event yet, you may have a problem.
In a conversation with "Star Trek" actor and screenwriter Simon Pegg, space station astronaut Kate Rubins said she feels like she's living in the future — and that the iconic science fiction franchise is fairly accurate in representing life in orbit.
The sun's branch of the Milky Way is longer and more massive than scientists had previously anticipated, suggesting that it has a more significant role in the structure of the galaxy.
The wispy tendrils of a long-dead star curl around a dense sphere of extraordinary power in a spooky view of the Crab Nebula.
The last piece of New Horizons flyby data reached mission control at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, early Tuesday morning (Oct. 25), NASA officials said.
The northwestern chamber of Pluto's "heart" has had its name changed from Sputnik Planum to Sputnik Planitia, to better reflect the characteristics of the region.
Early next year, California-based startup Made In Space plans to launch a machine to the International Space Station that will produce ZBLAN optical fiber.
For the 50th time in its 16-year history, the space station has a new commander. NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough took control of the International Space Station a day before the official start of Expedition 50 aboard the orbiting outpost.
With the Federal Aviation Administration restricted from developing safety regulations for people flying on commercial human spacecraft, an industry standards organization is moving ahead to establish a committee to develop a voluntary set of standards.
Strange pulses of cosmic light might be signals from hundreds of different alien civilizations — or just the latest false alarm in the tortuous search for ET.
Annalea Beattie describes what a typical day is like for her and her fellow Mars 160 crewmembers.