A laser hit the tiny black cube, and it lurched forward almost at once. That split-second jump, caught during a zero-gravity ...

Scientists show laser light can push graphene in space, opening the door to fuel-free movement and control of future ...

Spacecraft could one day glide through the cosmos without the need for traditional fuel, thanks to a groundbreaking discovery ...

Lasers could one day steer solar sails and adjust a satellite's position in outer space, thanks to graphene. An experiment on ...

Space travel has long involved heavy lifting. To reach a destination, the spacecraft has ...

The experiment also showed that tuning the light beam controlled the propulsion—the stronger the laser, the greater the ...

The public-private partnership plans a 2028 demonstration of its LEPTON technology designed to deliver photovoltaic power to the moon’s surface from low orbit.

Astronomers detect the most powerful space laser from colliding galaxies 8 billion light-years away, offering rare insights ...

Satellites firing lasers at each other in space sounds like science fiction, but it's happening right now, as terabytes of data quickly pass across the Starlink network. Muon Space satellites are set ...

Scientists detect most distant powerful space laser megamaser with MeerKAT, gravitational lensing reveals merging galaxies ...

The U.S. Space Force (and the Air Force before it) have been flying the Boeing X-37B spaceplane drone since 2010, demonstrating how advanced vehicles like this could maneuver on orbit and testing out ...

Jeff Carlson writes about mobile technology for CNET. He is also the author of dozens of how-to books covering a wide spectrum ranging from Apple devices and cameras to photo editing software and ...