MIT researchers have built a nanoscale photonic device shaped like a tiny ski jump that launches laser light directly off a ...

In a discovery that challenges conventional optics, scientists have managed to make a laser beam cast its own shadow—a feat previously thought impossible, as light typically passes through other light ...

A thin, stubbornly bright line showed up in data from the MeerKAT radio telescope that did not fit the usual rules of ...

For the first time, a quantum radiation reaction in strong electromagnetic fields has been demonstrated experimentally by ...

Inside most photonic chips, light races through tiny optical wires. It carries information far faster than electricity can in ...

Astronomers have discovered the brightest and most distant "megamaser" to date. The cosmic energy beam is shooting toward ...

Researchers at the University of Basel and the ETH in Zurich have succeeded in changing the polarity of a special ferromagnet ...

A NASA spacecraft has beamed a near-infrared laser nearly 10 million miles into space breaking new ground for the agency. The laser, which is encoded with test data, was fired from NASA’s Psyche ...

A New Mexico startup revealed its plans to deliver sunlight to satellites in orbit, helping power the spacecraft during times ...