NASA has a new trick up its sleeve for space communication. In July 2024, the Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) technology demonstration beamed a laser signal to the Psyche spacecraft, which ...

The recent success of NASA's laser communication test represents a paradigm shift in space technology. Traditionally, space ...

An innovative experiment flying aboard NASA’s Psyche mission just hit ... Laboratory at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s ...

In 1969, Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon's surface—a momentous engineering and science feat marked ...

Pushing the envelope: NASA is boldly going where no one has ... Psyche and two ground stations – one for uplink at JPL's Table Mountain facility and one for downlink at Caltech's giant 200 ...

NASA has plans to send astronauts back to the moon in 2026. Now, it is sharing a short list of locations where they could ...

NASA is experimenting with Invisible beams of light to transmit data to Earth, which can pack 10 to 100 times more ...

Now, the spacecraft has successfully entered orbit and NASA confirmed they received a signal from Europa Clipper about an hour and 10 minutes after launch, which means that mission control is ...

NASA's latest flagship mission to Jupiter was originally supposed to launch on a Space Launch System rocket, yet here we are. NASA's Europa Clipper mission finally launched today (Oct. 14) from ...

As NASA looks toward long-term lunar missions, a few problems have arisen -- specifically, how to create less trash in space and what to do with the trash that people create. That's why the US ...