NASA plans to test SpaceX’s Starshield satellite network, designed primarily for national security users, to support ...

Final tests of NASA's laser beam communication technology suggests we'll soon have a new way to keep in touch with astronauts and spacecraft venturing into deep space. When you purchase through links ...

Quantum physics is quietly rewriting the rulebook for how far and how fast humanity might travel beyond Earth. A cluster of ...

Quantum computing has moved from lab curiosity to a technology that could reshape how humanity plans its most ambitious journeys into deep space. Instead of relying solely on brute-force rockets and ...

Officials celebrate the completion of a new ESA deep space communications antenna at the New Norcia site in Western Australia. Credit: ESA SYDNEY — The European Space Agency has inaugurated a new deep ...

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Voyager 1 is kept in contact with Earth through NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN), which consists of three antennas at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex near Barstow, California; the ...

ESA has made Europe’s first deep-space optical link with NASA’s Psyche mission. ESA’s multi-beam high-power fiber laser transmission system. On July 7, the European Space Agency (ESA), established ...

In a new study, researchers from Penn State and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory analyzed human deep space communications and found that human transmissions are frequently directed toward our own ...

Earth may already be broadcasting its presence to alien civilizations without realizing it. A new study shows that our deep-space transmissions, especially those aimed at Mars and interplanetary ...

Humans should look to planetary alignments outside of the solar system when searching for signatures of extraterrestrial communications, scientists say. The nascent search for radio transmissions from ...