Artist’s rendering of an MQ-9B SkyGuardian drone disabling several attack drones with an integrated laser weapon pod. (General Atomics) Editor’s note: This story originally appeared on Laser Wars, a ...

A tiny elementary particle called the muon has won a big prize: the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. Researchers with Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory—which is affiliated with the ...

latter’sRocket Lab announced Tuesday it has completed the acquisition of Mynaric, a laser-optical communications terminal provider, in a $155.3 million transaction aimed at scaling production of ...

LONG BEACH, Calif., April 14, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rocket Lab Corporation (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”), a global leader in launch services and space systems, today announced it ...

Artificial intelligence is rapidly learning to autonomously design and run biological experiments, but the systems intended to govern those capabilities are struggling to keep pace. This is ...

Artificial intelligence is rapidly learning to autonomously design and run biological experiments, but the systems intended to govern those capabilities are struggling to keep pace. AI company OpenAI ...

An experiment on board a parabolic flight showed promising results suggesting that graphene, a thin sheet of carbon atoms, could be used to steer solar sails and adjust the position of satellites in ...

Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman peers back at Earth out of one of the Orion spacecraft's main cabin windows last Thursday. (NASA via AP) Editor's Note: This is an excerpt from WBUR's daily morning ...

Researchers at the University of Chicago have built a "self-driving" lab that uses robotics and artificial intelligence to accelerate work that would take humans weeks or months to complete. The ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics is set to enter its largest industrial research deal yet, part of its mission to create sustainable energy from fusion.