To reach Earth’s closest star system, Alpha Centauri, scientists are building a laser-powered spacecraft. To pull off interstellar travel, a spacecraft must be very light; therefore, it’s essential to ...

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have made a breakthrough in ...

A massive green and blue laser beam was spotted in the San Francisco ... One man told him he felt compelled to bike all the way from the Golden Gate Bridge when he saw it shining in the distance.

Researchers at Berkeley Lab enhance high-power laser stability using machine learning, reducing jitter and improving ...

IT’S CALLED THE LASER SPACE CANNON, AND IT’S STRONGER THAN THE BEAM THE KINGS USE ... They helped shut a gate to onlookers.

As reliably as an evening with an epic sunset, social media platforms flooded with similar, colorfully striped images Tuesday night when the sky turned dark in San Francisco. The event wasn’t ...

SEATTLE — An art installation featuring 30 laser beams in primary colors will shine from the top of the Space Needle Friday night. The show, called GuideStar, draws inspiration from astronomical ...

The green laser beam thus behaves like an object, blocking the blue light and casting a dark line across the screen. RELATED STORIES — Next-gen quantum computers could be powered using chip with ...

Physicists at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory just created a petawatt laser beam with the highest peak power and current ever. This beam was formed from a bunch of electrons that were ...

Those balloons, which floated near the edge of space, exchanged data traffic with one another using laser beams. Taara adapted Loon’s laser technology for use in terrestrial network equipment.