NASA has a new trick up its sleeve for space communication. In July 2024, the Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) ...

X-ray astronomy is a somewhat neglected corner of the more general field of astronomy. The biggest names in telescopes, like ...

In February 2016 scientists at the two Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) sites in the US first detected the phenomenon predicted by Einstein, with the signals corresponding to ...

The car-sized Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) Camera that was recently installed on the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is ...

[Dr. Fortin] teaches physics at a French High School, and to get his students interested in the natural world around them, he built a geomagnetic observatory, able to tell his students if they ...

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO, is one of the most powerful scientific equipment for detecting gravitational waves. Covering an area of 16 square kilometers ...

A team of physicists, led by Jonathan Richardson from the University of California, Riverside, has made a breakthrough in ...

Deep Space Optical Communication (DSOC) uses near-infrared lasers for high-bandwidth, low-power, and efficient communication ...

310-318 (9 pages) ABSTRACT The Keck II Telescope is the first 8–10 m class telescope equipped with a laser guide star adaptive optics ... The data presented here were obtained at the W. M. Keck ...

According to Einstein’s theory of general relativity, gravitational waves warp spacetime. In the process, they could imprint ...