Could a laser no more powerful than a household nightlight create the future of satellite communications? From 36,000 kilometers above Earth, a Chinese geostationary satellite pulled off a feat that ...

Last week, four lasers were projected into the sky above the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Paranal site in Chile. The ...

The world’s most powerful laser, which was first detailed in a 2012 paper written by a team of researchers from Japans’ Osaka University, has successfully been fired. Turned on for one trillionth of a ...

Recently, the Very Large Telescope (VLT) used its powerful interferometer, also called the VLTI, as part of its GRAVITY+ ...

For better images, the European Southern Observatory can combine four optical telescopes. Now, thanks to laser technology, a ...

A few years ago, researchers in Michal Lipson’s lab noticed something remarkable. They were working on a project to improve LiDAR, a technology that uses lightwaves to measure distance. The lab was ...