where the ship's laser would be used not for combat but for cutting through the moon's icy crust to enable a probe to descend to the ocean below. Of course, like all spaceships today, the big "if ...

In advertising the other-worldly compound, the team has leaned into its “launch pad” appeal, enticing potential buyers to “Check out this newly-remodeled spaceship-on-earth!” in the listing.

What would science fiction be without laser beams? From handheld ray guns to spaceship-mounted turbolasers, the futuristic weapon of choice definitely involves bright, colorful blasts of energy.

Announced by Russian entrepreneur Yuri Milner and a team of theoretical physicists, the idea became public on Tuesday, and the reality of laser-beam powered, nanocraft “sailboats” took another ...

In its latest probe, NASA revealed that it had sent a high-definition cat video from a spaceship 19 million ... deployed in deep space. Aiming a laser beam from millions of miles away necessitates ...