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Earth Gets Its First Deep-Space Laser Message—From 16 Million Kilometers Away!. NASA has just pulled off a groundbreaking achievement that feels straight out of science fiction. A laser message from space has traveled a staggering 16 million kilometers, setting the stage for a new era in space communication.

Voyager 1 miles from earth?.
15.46 billion miles (24.96 billion kilometers) from Earth, making it the farthest human-made object in space. This equates to roughly 166.278 AU (Astronomical Units) away from Earth.

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Earth Gets Its First Deep-Space Laser Message—From 16 Million Kilometers Away!. NASA has just pulled off a groundbreaking achievement that feels straight out of science fiction. A laser message from space has traveled a staggering 16 million kilometers, setting the stage for a new era in space communication.

This wasn't a simple task. At such a vast distance, it takes light 50 seconds to travel one way. Aligning a laser beam with a fast-moving target across such a long distance is incredibly challenging.
https://indiandefencereview.com/earth-ge...ters-away/

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This wasn't a simple task such a vast distance, it takes light 50 seconds to travel one way. Aligning laser beam fast-moving target across such a long distance is incredibly challenging.

https://indiandefencereview.com/earth-ge...ters-away/

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Voyager 1 miles from earth?.
15.46 billion miles (24.96 billion kilometers) from Earth, making it the farthest human-made object in space. This equates to roughly 166.278 AU (Astronomical Units) away from Earth.

While Earth Gets Its First Deep-Space Laser Message—From 16km away!. 
Hope NASA can groundbreaking achievement to reach feels straight out of science fiction hope laser message from space can traveled  more farther, staggering only 16 million km, setting the stage for a farther to new era in space communication....toward Voyager 1 miles from earth?.15.46 billion miles (24.96 billion kilometers) from Earth.

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Earth.com staff writer: 'Largest structure in the universe' is even bigger than astronomers imagined and still a huge mystery 05-07-2025

Astronomers have spotted something that appears to stretch around ten billion light years across. So-called Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall is being reevaluated & it might be more extensive and nearer to Earth than earlier calculations suggested. Its immense size has fueled discussions about how matter spreads out in the cosmos. Some see it as an oddity cannot be explained by standard maps of the universe, others say more data will shed light on nature.
One person at the center of these efforts is Dr. Jon Hakkila from the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He & his team his examined way gamma-ray bursts signal the edges of this structure.
https://www.earth.com/news/largest-struc...-imagined/

Force behind explosion: The last hours of a sta believed that GRB 221009A’s formation creation are a result of collapse of huge star, caused supernova & black hole to develop, happens is this process then releases a great amount of energy, leads to a concentrated jet of gamma rays can identified as GRB if it is oriented towards Earth. NASA spotted the biggest explosion since the Big Bang. However, Mirko expressed there have been some concerns regarding the effects of this gamma-ray burst in our galaxy. This is what experts believe regarding this discovery: The worst-case scenario might be burst harming ozone layer & the ionosphere. This means UV radiation from sun will access earth & cause harm b'cos it protects us from the harmful radiation that the sun emits.

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While Earth Gets Its First Deep-Space Laser Message—From 16km away!. 
Hope NASA can groundbreaking achievement to reach feels straight out of science fiction hope laser message from space can traveled  more farther, staggering only 16 million km, setting the stage for a farther to new era in space communication....toward Voyager 1 miles from earth?.15.46 billion miles (24.96 billion kilometers) from Earth.

Technology has been undeniably transformed human life, reshaping, how we communicate, work, and socialise. However, it has also brought new challenges, particularly to our mental & physical well-beiag human.

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Technology has been undeniably transformed human life, how fast, it  reshaping, how we communicate, work, and socialise. However, it has also brought new challenges, particularly to our mental & physical well-beiag human.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/astr...138454.cms

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Technology has been undeniably transformed human life, reshaping, how we communicate, work, and socialise. However, it has also brought new challenges, particularly to our mental & physical well-beiag human.

For reading info....
https://youtu.be/SG2v2Y0wsp8?si=a6gU005-b_wQTtU8

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Technology has been undeniably transformed human life reshaping.
How we communicate, work, and socialise it has also brought new challenges, particularly to our mental & physical well-beiag human.

Voyager 1 recently made an impossible contact in outer space, which has startled scientists and spurred crazy imaginations throughout the globe. Over 14 billion miles beyond Earth, NASA's famous spacecraft, launched in 1977, has returned signals that defy every known physical rule. Experts monitoring Voyager 1's route via the Deep Space Network have discovered anomalies that point to something utterly unexpected: a contact with an unknown object or energy field in interstellar space. This incident is not only perplexing, also unprecedented, raising major questions about what genuinely exists outside our solar system.


NASA scientists & astrophysicists are trying to decipher strange findings, which indicate that Voyager 1 may have reached an area of space unlike any that humanity has ever explored. Signals have strange frequencies fluctuating patterns cannot be explained using current models of space radiation, gravitational waves, or cosmic dust. Academics believe this is a sign of advanced extraterrestrial technology,others believe Voyager 1 may have entered an altogether new dimension or pocket of dark energy. Whatever answer, frightening deep space oddity has potential to permanently alter our knowledge of cosmos.

The globe is keeping a close eye on Voyager 1 as it continues its voyage into unexplored territory. This newest encounter has sparked renewed enthusiasm in deep space research, interstellar travel, and the search for extraterrestrial life. With headlines like "Voyager 1 deep space mystery," "NASA spacecraft encounters anomaly," and "impossible deep space signal," this story is dominating science news and sparking heated debates among astronomers, physicists, and UFO enthusiasts

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Voyager 1 recently made an impossible contact in outer space, which has startled scientists and spurred crazy imaginations throughout the globe. Over 14 billion miles beyond Earth, NASA's famous spacecraft, launched in 1977, has returned signals that defy every known physical rule. Experts monitoring Voyager 1's route via the Deep Space Network have discovered anomalies that point to something utterly unexpected: a contact with an unknown object or energy field in interstellar space. This incident is not only perplexing, also unprecedented, raising major questions about what genuinely exists outside our solar system.


NASA scientists & astrophysicists are trying to decipher strange findings, which indicate that Voyager 1 may have reached an area of space unlike any that humanity has ever explored. Signals have strange frequencies fluctuating patterns cannot be explained using current models of space radiation, gravitational waves, or cosmic dust. Academics believe this is a sign of advanced extraterrestrial technology, other
believe Voyager 1 may have entered an altogether new dimension or pocket of dark energy. Whatever answer, frightening deep space oddity has potential to permanently alter our knowledge of cosmos. RThe globe is keeping a close eye on Voyager 1 as it continues its voyage into unexplored territory. This newest encounter has sparked renewed enthusiasm in deep space research, interstellar travel, and the search for extraterrestrial life. With headlines like "Voyager 1 deep space mystery," "NASA spacecraft encounters anomaly," and "impossible deep space signal," this story is dominating science news and sparking heated debates among astronomers, physicists, and UFO enthusiasts

https://youtu.be/T-14cX4lVBw?si=x9TcbS-DPNnQ6c1W

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"hypervelocity" stars are extremely rare, but we've just spotted a particularly special example. Speeding Out of Galaxy 1.2 Million MPH.[

https://youtube.com/shorts/v99GUNSwc5M?s...nqO_Nyq0G1

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https://youtu.be/11NpcfK81VA?si=h-nbT2Z0DLGEowBe

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A silence inside NASA speaks louder than anything else. This isn’t another deep space anomaly. confirmation feared might be true: Edge of our solar system… is not empty, & maybe, it never was...
https://youtu.be/g3GKZMbnwnk?si=sirdyH0H_x9vWCPE

On May 14, 2025, the Sun unleashed its strongest flare of the year — an X2.7-class explosion from sunspot AR4087. This short video breaks down what happened, why it matters, and how it disrupted radio communications across three continents. Dive into the science behind solar flares, space weather risks, and what to expect next.
https://youtu.be/ecF_Pg1neqM?si=YIiHoBuMD2jGIKV2

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On May 14, 2025, the Sun unleashed its strongest flare of the year — an X2.7-class explosion from sunspot AR4087. This short video breaks down what happened, why it matters, and how it disrupted radio communications across three continents. Dive into the science behind solar flares, space weather risks, and what to expect next.
https://youtu.be/ecF_Pg1neqM?si=YIiHoBuMD2jGIKV2

https://youtu.be/ecF_Pg1neqM?si=sTmKrLQT0fXlCzXe

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On May 14, 2025, the Sun unleashed its strongest flare of the year — an X2.7-class explosion from sunspot AR4087. This short video breaks down what happened, why it matters, and how it disrupted radio communications across three continents. Dive into the science behind solar flares, space weather risks, and what to expect next.
https://youtu.be/ecF_Pg1neqM?si=YIiHoBuMD2jGIKV2

Space weather risks, and what to expect next

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While Earth Gets Its First Deep-Space Laser Message — From 16th km away!. Hope NASA can try ground breaking achievement to reach feels straight out of science fiction hope laser message from space to spacecan traveled  more farther, staggering only 16 million km, setting the stage for a farther to new era into space communication....toward Voyager 1 miles from earth?.15.46 billion miles (24.96 billion kilometers) from Earth.

Whatever answer, frightening deep space oddity has potential to permanently alter our knowledge farther on cosmos. More globe are keeping a close eye on Voyager 1 and 2 also as it continues its voyage into exploring farther territory. This newest encounter has sparked renewed interest on enthusiasm into deep space research, interstellar travel, and the search even for extraterrestrial life. With headlines like "Voyager 1 deep space mystery," "NASA spacecraft encounters a few  anomaly, too" and "impossible deep space signal," this story is dominating science news and sparking heated debates among astronomers, physicists, & UFO enthusiasts

Why this breakthrough could rewrite the future of communication. Most recently, researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), EPB of Chattanooga, & the University of Tennessee performed an unprecedented experiment in which they sent entangled photons through a commercial fiber-optic network and maintained an entangled connection for over 30 hours! They used a system called automatic polarization compensation, or just APC. It keeps the photons in check, adjusting them in real time so the signal doesn’t drop, even if the environment around it starts to shift

In essence, team used something called automatic polarization compensation, or APC, which basically keeps the photons contained and then adjusts to keep the entangled state without quitting if the conditions that are present in the environment change. This breakthrough means quantum networks are a real possibility and viable! The future of quantum communication: advancements that could send data beyond our solar system. Sending light to another galaxy is still a distant dream. However, the recent breakthrough in stabilizing entangled photons has opened new doors for quantum communication and future computing.

Recent advancements in nanometer-scale engineering, such as development of ultra-compact photon generators, are also pushing limits of what is possible, signaling a future where quantum communication could surpass even our solar system. What once seemed like science fiction teleporting light is now proven by scientists to be a reality. With
every new advance, we get closer to a future where instantaneous, secure communication over unimaginable distances stops being a dream and becomes a reality. Whether it’s across the street or to another galaxy, the way we think about sending information is being fundamentally transformed. 
Maybe we’re closer to a reality like the one in the film Back to the Future than we realize, especially with recent research advancements that, for instance, are transforming light into an exotic material – a discovery that
promises to redefine physics and quantum computing.

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Why this breakthrough could rewrite the future of communication. Most recently, researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), EPB of Chattanooga, & the University of Tennessee performed an unprecedented experiment in which they sent entangled photons through a commercial fiber-optic network and maintained an entangled connection for over 30 hours! They used a system called automatic polarization compensation, or just APC. It keeps the photons in check, adjusting them in real time so the signal doesn’t drop, even if the environment around it starts to shift

In essence, team used something called automatic polarization compensation, or APC, which basically keeps the photons contained and then adjusts to keep the entangled state without quitting if the conditions that are present in the environment change. This breakthrough means quantum networks are a real possibility and viable! The future of quantum communication: advancements that could send data beyond our solar system. Sending light to another galaxy is still a distant dream. However, the recent breakthrough in stabilizing entangled photons has opened new doors for quantum communication and future computing.

Recent advancements in nanometer-scale engineering, such as development of ultra-compact photon generators, are also pushing limits of what is possible, signaling a future where quantum communication could surpass even our solar system. What once seemed like science fiction teleporting light is now proven by scientists to be a reality. With every new advance, we get closer to a future where instantaneous, secure communication over unimaginable distances stops being a dream and becomes a reality. Whether it’s across the street or to another galaxy, the way we think about sending information is being fundamentally transformed. 
Maybe we’re closer to a reality like the one in the film Back to the Future than we realize, especially with recent research advancements that, for instance, are transforming light into an exotic material – a discovery that
promises to redefine physics and quantum computing.

https://www.ecoticias.com/en/light-telep...axy/14548/

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On May 14, 2025, the Sun unleashed its strongest flare of the year — an X2.7-class explosion from sunspot AR4087. This short video breaks down what happened, why it matters, and how it disrupted radio communications across three continents. Dive into the science behind solar flares, space weather risks, and what to expect next.
https://youtu.be/ecF_Pg1neqM?si=YIiHoBuMD2jGIKV2

Disruption to radio signals could be caused by region AR4087
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A massive solar flare has erupted from the Sun, triggering powerful radio blackouts across Europe, Asia and the Middle East...Scientists are now warning more disruption could be on the way as active sunspot region responsible for eruption rotates directly toward Earth.

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Disruption to radio signals could be caused by region AR4087. A massive solar flare has erupted from the Sun, triggering powerful radio blackouts across Europe, Asia the Middle East...
Scientists are now warning more disruption could be on the way as active sunspot region responsible for eruption rotates directly toward Earth.

https://youtu.be/ecF_Pg1neqM?si=tFbih979eSdUi3Xw

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Voyager 1 miles from earth?.
15.46 billion miles (24.96 billion kilometers) from Earth, making it the farthest human-made object in space. This equates to roughly 166.278 AU (Astronomical Units) away from Earth.

While Earth Gets Its First Deep-Space Laser Message—From 16km away!.
Hope NASA can groundbreaking achievement to reach feels straight out of science fiction hope laser message from space can traveled  more farther, staggering only 16 million km, setting the stage for a farther to new era in space communication....toward Voyager one miles from earth?.15.46 billion miles (24.96 billion kilometers) from Earth.

1) Water found outside the Earth ― It’s not on Mars and forms huge ice oceans

2) Einstein predicted a strange force in the universe ― Experts could have found it with unexpected effects

3) Light teleported for the first time in history ― We could send it to another galaxy. Researchers is monitoring.

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Voyager one miles from earth?.
15.46 billion miles (24.96 billion km)
from Earth, making it farthest human
made object in space. This equates to roughly 166.278 AU (Astronomical Units) away from Earth. While Earth Gets Its First Deep-Space Laser Message—From 16km away!. Hope NASA can groundbreaking achievement to reach feels straight out of science fiction hope laser message from space can traveled  more farther, staggering only 16 million km, setting stage for farther to new era in space communicatiotoward Voyager one miles from earth?.15.46 billion miles (24.96 billion kilometers) from Earth.

1) Water found outside the Earth ― It’s not on Mars and forms huge ice oceans

2) Einstein predicted a strange force in the universe ― Experts could have found it with unexpected effects

3) Light teleported for the first time in history ― We could send it to another galaxy. Researchers is monitoring.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image offers us the chance to see a distant galaxy now some 19.5 billion light-years from Earth (but appearing as it did around 11 billion years ago, when the galaxy was 5.5 billion light-years away and began its trek to us through expanding space). Known as HerS 020941.1+001557, this remote galaxy appears as a red arc partially encircling a foreground elliptical galaxy located some 2.7 billion light-years away. Called SDSS J020941.27+001558.4, the elliptical galaxy appears as a bright dot at the center of the image with a broad haze of stars outward from its core. A third galaxy, called SDSS J020941.23+001600.7, seems to be intersecting part of the curving, red crescent of light created by the distant galaxy.


The alignment of this trio of galaxies creates a type of gravitational lens called an Einstein ring. Gravitational lenses occur when light from a very distant object bends (or is ‘lensed’) around a massive (or ‘lensing’) object located between us and the distant lensed galaxy. When the lensed object and the lensing object align, they create an Einstein ring. Einstein rings can appear as a full or partial circle of light around the foreground lensing object, depending on how precise the alignment is. The effects of this phenomenon are much too subtle to see on a local level but can become clearly observable when dealing with curvatures of light on enormous, astronomical scales.

Gravitational lenses not only bend and distort light from distant objects but magnify it as well. Here we see light from a distant galaxy following the curve of spacetime created by the elliptical galaxy’s mass. As the distant galaxy’s light passes through the gravitational lens, it is magnified and bent into a partial ring around the foreground galaxy, creating a distinctive Einstein ring shape.

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This is a bigger one, can see farther.  



https://eladelantado.com/news/james-webb...ide-earth/

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Technology has been undeniably transformed human life, reshaping, how we communicate, work, and socialise. However, it has also brought new challenges, particularly to our mental & physical well-beiag human.

Astronomers discovered a mysterious object zooming through the Milky Way at an unbelievable speed! It’s moving so fast that it might even escape our galaxy entirely. Some scientists think it could be the leftover core of a dead star, while others believe it might be something we’ve never seen before. Whatever it is, it’s traveling at millions of miles per hour, leaving a strange trail behind. Studying it could give us new clues about the forces shaping our universe. One thing’s for sure - space just got a whole lot weirder!
https://youtu.be/wXa_YqnEqJ0?si=Gu6SGQ-b1sUtz28D

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Astronomers discovered a mysterious object zooming through the Milky Way at an unbelievable speed! It’s moving so fast that it might even escape our galaxy entirely. Some scientists think it could be the leftover core of a dead star, while others believe it might be something we’ve never seen before. Whatever it is, it’s traveling at millions of miles per hour, leaving a strange trail behind. Studying it could give us new clues about the forces shaping our universe. One thing’s for sure - space just got a whole lot weirder!
https://youtu.be/wXa_YqnEqJ0?si=Gu6SGQ-b1sUtz28D

https://youtu.be/wXa_YqnEqJ0?si=gwcmnEJSUJ34c41e

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This is a bigger one, can see farther.  



https://eladelantado.com/news/james-webb...ide-earth/

Water, Water every where?. 

NASA has made it official – James Webb Space Telescope has detected water outside of Earth Clapping – This historic discovery changes everything we all thought we knew about life in the universe... Rotfl

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This is a bigger one, can see farther.  



https://eladelantado.com/news/james-webb...ide-earth/

Recent advancements in nanometer-scale engineering, such as development of ultra-compact photon generators, are also pushing limits of what is possible, signaling a future where quantum communication could surpass even our solar system. What once seemed like science fiction teleporting light is now proven by scientists to be a reality. With

every new advance, we get closer to a future where instantaneous, secure communication over unimaginable distances stops being a dream and becomes a reality. Whether it’s across the street or to another galaxy, the way we think about sending information is being fundamentally transformed.
Maybe we’re closer to a reality like the one in the film Back to the Future and go over our solar system and beyond. 

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Confirmed – After 70 years, Isaac Newton’s prediction comes true, surprising the scientific communityby Raquel. Sir Isaac Newton has been dead for nearly 300 years, but apparently, he’s still out here solving 21st-century problems. Scientists have just confirmed that Newton’s centuries-old laws of motion contained the key to cracking a 70-year-old mystery in nuclear fusion —a.k.a. the Holy Grail of clean energy, but you probably know that if you watched Amazon’s Fallout series. The only reason it took this long was that we were using the right math… the wrong way. Now, thanks to a new outlook on Newton’s old formulas, researchers have finally solved a massive roadblock in making fusion reactors work properly.

For over half a century, scientists have been trying to build machines that can mimic the Sun by fusing hydrogen atoms together to create clean, nearly limitless energy. The tech is called nuclear fusion, and it’s been the future of energy for… well, forever. However, there’s a catch: these reactors have a bad habit of leaking. Not oil or coolant… they literally leak energy. Specifically, the high-speed particles that keep the fusion reaction going slip through gaps in the magnetic fields that are supposed to trap them. Imagine trying to boil water in a pot full of holes. That’s been fusion science since the 1950s.

No matter how fancy the machine —tokamaks, stellarators, or other wildly named contraptions—nobody could figure out how to stop the leaks until now. 

So what does Newton have to do with it?
Newton never said anything about fusion —he was more focused on apples, planets, and inventing calculus out of boredom. But his laws of motion describe how objects move through space, and that includes the chaotic swirl of particles inside a fusion reactor.

Those laws are super precise… and computationally expensive. Running Newton’s full math on every single particle in a fusion reactor was like trying to use a pocket calculator to simulate a hurricane. So, physicists settled for faster, simpler models, called perturbation theory, that were easier to compute but came with major inaccuracies.

The credit of solving this decades-long problem goes to a research team from the University of Texas, Los Alamos National Lab, and a private company called Type One Energy. They developed a brand-new mathematical method that uses Newton’s laws directly —no shortcuts, no guesswork— but runs 10 times faster than previous full-model simulations. With this new method, scientists can now predict exactly where and how energy escapes, and more importantly, how to design fusion reactors to prevent it. Why does this matter for clean energy?
Fusion reactors have long been the dream: clean, carbon-free power with no meltdown risks or long-term radioactive waste. But until now, the energy lost from leaky magnetic fields made them inefficient—and way too expensive to be practical.

With this new approach, researchers can design far more efficient systems, potentially accelerating the timeline for commercial fusion power. Blame it on physics, pride, and the limits of computing power. For decades, scientists knew that Newton’s laws could describe particle behavior better than anything else. But they also assumed the math was too slow, too complex, or just not worth the effort. This isn’t the first time science has circled back to old ideas. It turns out that a lot of “unsolvable” problems just need someone stubborn (and clever) enough to try the hard way—and technology finally caught up.

It’s not every day a guy born in 1643 gets a win in 2025, but here we are. Isaac Newton’s rules of motion—written before electricity was even a thing—just helped solve one of the biggest scientific bottlenecks of our time. And if fusion energy does end up saving the planet someday, we might need to update Newton’s résumé. From “father of physics” to posthumous clean energy consultant, with a 300-year delay.

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Voyager 1 miles from earth?.
15.46 billion miles (24.96 billion kilometers) from Earth, making it the farthest human-made object in space. This equates to roughly 166.278 AU (Astronomical Units) away from Earth.

NASA confirms it – we are not alone, receiving a laser signal from 460 million kilometers away with the system’s

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NASA confirms it – we are not alone, receiving a laser signal from 460 million kilometers away with the system.

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If you thought space was a quiet place, NASA just proved otherwise. The agency recently received a laser signal sent from 460 million kilometers away. And no, this isn’t a message from extraterrestrials (thank God). It’s a technological feat by humans, for humans, but one that opens the door to future interstellar conversations.
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NASA confirms it – we are not alone, receiving a laser signal from 460 million kilometers away with the system’sby Raquel  05/14/2025 14:30

NASA confirms it - we are not alone, receiving a laser signal from 460 million kilometers away with the system's

If you thought space was a quiet place, NASA just proved otherwise. The agency recently received a laser signal sent from 460 million kilometers away. And no, this isn’t a message from extraterrestrials (thank God). It’s a technological feat by humans, for humans, but one that opens the door to future interstellar conversations.The message came courtesy of NASA’s [b]Psyche mission, a spacecraft currently on its way to explore a mysterious metallic asteroid floating between Mars and Jupiter. But along the way, Psyche is also carrying something that’s capturing the world’s imagination: the Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment, which just set a new record for the longest-distance laser communication ever attempted.[/b]
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The message came courtesy of NASA’s Psyche mission, a spacecraft currently on its way to explore a mysterious metallic asteroid floating between Mars and Jupiter. But along the way, Psyche is also carrying something that’s capturing the world’s imagination: the Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment, which just set a new record for the longest-distance laser communication ever attempted.
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If you thought space was a quiet place, NASA just proved otherwise. The agency recently received a laser signal sent from 460 million kilometers away. And no, this isn’t a message from extraterrestrials (thank God). It’s a technological feat by humans, for humans, but one that opens the door to future interstellar conversations.

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Message came courtesy of NASA’s Psyche mission, a spacecraft currently on its way to explore a mysterious metallic asteroid floating between Mars and Jupiter. But along the way, Psyche is also carrying something that’s capturing the world’s imagination: the Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment, which just set a new record for the longest-distance laser communication ever attempted. And if this makes you wonder if ET is about to text us instead of phoning home —well, we’re still not quite there. But the tech that made this happen is lighting the path toward a sci-fi future.

NASA’s deep space laser test
Here’s what actually happened: NASA successfully sent & received a laser communication from Psyche as it cruised 460 million kilometers (that’s about 286 million miles) away from Earth was captured by the Hale Telescope at the Palomar Observatory in California, making it the farthest successful laser communication ever performed.

DSOC system aboard Psyche sent the encoded data via infrared laser light, proving laser-based communication is not only possible, but reliable over staggering distances. To grasp the scale of this achievement, picture trying to aim a laser pointer at a moving marble from across the country, you’re also in motion. That’s essentially what NASA’s engineers pulled off. The Psyche spacecraft is constantly moving through the vastness of space, as is Earth. Despite this, DSOC system managed to send a focused infrared laser beam across 460 million kilometers, and it landed squarely on target at the Hale Telescope. And the signal only took 50 seconds to travel the distance. DSOC uses infrared light, much shorter wavelengths than traditional radio waves. This allows it to pack more data into the beam, meaning future space missions could send back high-definition videos, vast scientific data sets, and even real-time messages from the far reaches of the solar system.

Why this's a giant leap for deep space communication
Radio waves have served us well for decades, but they’re starting to feel a little slow in age of high-def everything. Radio signals can only carry so much data, & farther you go, the slower and fuzzier the connection gets. DSOC promises data transmission rates 10 to 100 times higher than what we use now, meaning astronauts on future missions to Mars or farther out won’t have to wait days to send back crucial scientific data.

Lasers lighting the way to Mars and beyond

This is just beginning. NASA plans to integrate DSOC or laser communication systems into upcoming missions, including aimed @Mars & out outer solar system. Beyond space, technology also revolutionize Earth-based DSOC system communications, leading to faster satellite internet, more efficient data relay system & enhanced planetary defense communication networks. Laser communication isn’t just for astronauts; in one day, changing the way we all connect on Earth, too. So laser signal from 460 million km away wasn’t from an alien civilization, it’s still a achievement for humanity vs proving not even the vastness of space can keep us from sending messages across the cosmic void. Next time you gaze at the stars, remember. We’re no longer just looking: we’re sending laser beams through the dark, opening up a whole new chapter of space communication. & who knows? Maybe next message we receive won’t just be from one of our own spacecraft. from alien...