The primary challenge in satellite laser downlinks is atmospheric turbulence, which distorts and weakens signals.

A 2-watt laser, no brighter than a nightlight, has just delivered data at 1 gigabit per second from a satellite 36,000 ...

Imagine beaming a HD movie from Shanghai to Los Angeles – crossing three Pacific widths in less than five seconds using just ...

Starlink already dims its spacecraft in visible light by tipping solar panels away from Sun reflections. A similar hardware ...

Just 500 light years away, the Chamaeleon Complex, and in particular its dark cloud Chamaeleon I, is a hotbed of young, ...

M28 is a globular cluster located 17,900 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius. It was discovered by ...

This cluster of tightly bound stars lies more than 8,000 light-years away from Earth and is, like all globular clusters, a densely populated region of tens of thousands of stars.

JOHANNESBURG - Jonathan Griffiths is the youngest radio station manager in KwaZulu-Natal. WATCH | S.Africa's vast radio telescope draws new generation to the cosmos.

China starts construction of world’s largest steerable radio telescope in western Xinjiang region Although scientists cannot fully explain it, dark energy is likely to compose around 68 per cent ...

The telescope continues to revolutionise our understanding of cosmic history Using data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have identified dozens of small, starburst galaxies ...

URUMQI (Xinhua): China is building a giant radio telescope in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The main tower of the telescope was capped on Sunday, ushering in the official ...