Picture yourself standing by a river, watching as a drone hums overhead. Below, its lidar system scans the landscape, mapping both the land and the shallow waters with pinpoint accuracy. This is ...

A highly reflective lightsail pushed by light energy in the same way sailboats are pushed by the wind could travel as fast as one-fifth the speed of light, researchers say PROVIDENCE — NASA’s Parker ...

In a breakthrough straight out of science fiction, Israel has announced the deployment of the world's first effective and battle-tested high-power laser interception system, dubbed Iron Beam, ...

A Chinese satellite has used a small 2-watt laser from 36,000 km above Earth to send data faster than Starlink. This surprising success shows how far space technology has come, using just a weak beam ...

EOS' counter-space laser system draws on its 150 kW-class laser technology. Credit: EOS LONDON—Electro Optic Systems (EOS) is looking to demonstrate a new high-power laser system capable of burning ...