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 ...

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 ...

TOKYO -- Osaka-based startup EX-Fusion is attempting to accomplish what once seemed impossible -- taking out minuscule pieces of space junk with laser beams ... they strike spaceships and ...

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 ...