Anyone would say that hitting a moving object 130,000 km from Earth with a laser beam would be impossible. However, in April ...

Google’s parent company, Alphabet, is still experimenting with hooking up remote towns to the Internet via frickin’ laser beams. Today, Alphabet’s moonshot “X Lab” shared an update on Project Taara, ...

They don’t doubt the utility of optical intersatellite links. They simply question how quickly optical terminals will be adopted by enterprise customers to link satellites in low-Earth orbit with the ...

The world’s most powerful X-ray laser beam has been used to create a microscopic “black hole.” The machine uses extremely bright, fast flashes of light to take atomic-level snapshots of some of nature ...