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NASA’s Pandora Set for Jan. 11 Launch to Clarify Exoplanet Atmospheres

The small telescope will use simultaneous visible plus infrared measurements to separate planetary signals from stellar variability.

Stanford Team Reports Photonic Skin That Switches Texture and Color

Overview Energy Unveils Airborne Laser Power-Beaming, Targeting Space Solar for Existing Farms

Researchers Trap Single Airborne Particle With Lasers, Observe Sudden Microdischarges

Study Shows Light’s Magnetic Field Contributes to the Faraday Effect

‘The Fall of Icarus’: Skydiver Captured Against the Sun Goes Viral

Disneyland Says Black Smoke Ring Was From Pre-Opening Pyrotechnic Test

Aalto Researchers Demonstrate Single-Shot Optical Tensor Computing

Studies Reveal Green-Glowing North American Bats and a Vibration Role for Spider-Web Zigzags

Researchers Build 300-Nanometer OLED Pixel That Matches Micro-Pixel Brightness

Siphonein in Marine Alga Codium Fragile Delivers Complete Triplet Quenching

YouTuber’s Garage-Built Rig Visualizes Light at 2 Billion Frames Per Second

Starlink Mini Lasers Will Link Muon’s Halo Satellites for Near Real‑Time Data Relay

Modern Monitoring Clarifies the Moon’s Mysterious Flashes

Ultrafast Laser Pulses on Gold Nanoparticles Let MSU Scientists 'Draw' Crystals on Demand

Arizona-Led Team Controls Quantum Uncertainty in Real Time With Ultrafast Squeezed Light

NASA Concludes Deep-Space Laser Demo With Psyche’s Final Downlink at 218 Million Miles

Optica Study Demonstrates FROSTI, a Thermal Adaptive Optics System for LIGO

DTU-Led Experiment Shows Proven Quantum Advantage on a Photonic Platform

Caltech Chip OPO Delivers Coherent Multi‑Octave Frequency Comb at Femtojoule Energies