It’s been quite a year for laser communications in space. In October and November, NASA launched two pioneering demonstrations to test high-bandwidth optical communication links, and these tech demos ...

There are so many cat videos on the internet that it was only a matter of time before one was sent from deep in space. According to NASA, they did just that. Deep Space Optical Communications, working ...

NASA has broken its own record by transmitting ultra-high-definition video over a distance of 31 million kilometres from deep space. The footage wasn’t of distant celestial bodies or spacecraft, but ...