If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Imagine spotting the laser beam from the fictitious Death Star of “Star Wars” fame ...

One day, we might want the World Wide Web to stretch across the galaxy, and NASA just took a major step in that direction —successfully beaming a laser ...

its tight beam limits findings to a tiny portion of the halo. By capturing a far broader sweep of space some 90,000 light ...