Meandering between Mars and Jupiter, an asteroid named Psyche holds an estimated worth of a staggering $10,000 quadrillion.

NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications tech demo has completed several key milestones, culminating in sending a signal to ...

In late July, the Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) transmitted laser data across 290 million miles from the Psyche ...

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 3 (Xinhua) -- NASA's Psyche mission has sent signal from Mars orbit, marking a critical milestone of the mission, NASA said on Thursday.

Philip Metzger, a planetary physicist at the University of Central Florida, explained that the primary difference between ...

It turns out a laser can beam data back to Earth even if it’s based as far away as Mars, according to a new test from NASA.

The Psyche spacecraft, launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida in October last year, is the first-ever U.S. mission to study a metal-rich asteroid in the far reaches of the main ...

In fact, work done by Degnan on laser communications suggests that gigabits or even terabits per second are potentially ...

NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications test has completed its first phase, showing that laser communications in space are possible and faster than radio.

The asteroid Dimorphos had its 12-hour orbit shortened by a half-hour. Shortly after 7 pm EST, the DART spacecraft will smack ...