The term 'laser' stands for "Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation." Lasers are made of a source of energy, ...

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 VLT is a powerful astronomical observatory that captures high-resolution images and spectra of celestial objects, ...

In February 2016 scientists at the two Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) sites in the US first detected the phenomenon predicted by Einstein, with the signals corresponding to ...

A laser from the Foster Observatory telescope beams toward the 'blood moon' during a total lunar eclipse in Santiago, Chile | ...

X-ray astronomy is a somewhat neglected corner of the more general field of astronomy. The biggest names in telescopes, like ...

[Dr. Fortin] teaches physics at a French High School, and to get his students interested in the natural world around them, he built a geomagnetic observatory, able to tell his students if they ...

The primary difference between Optical SETI and Radio SETI is that Optical SETI searches for pulses of laser light in or near the visible portion of the light sprectrum, while Radio SETI searches for ...