Abhijit Biswas

Preparations are proceeding for the launch a NASA orbiter that uses futuristic electric propulsion technology for a rendezvous with 16 Psyche, the heart of a demolished planet believed to be made almost entirely of iron.

Two forms of the same boron nitride molecules couldn't look and act more different – but combining them could lead to applications that have the best of both...

Using laser communication, NASA streamed a cat video from almost 20 million miles away, or 40 round trip flights to the moon.

The first tests of optical communications far from Earth will take place aboard the asteroid-bound Psyche spacecraft

Just as carbon makes up both the brittle core of a No. 2 pencil and the harder-than-steel diamond in a cutting tool, boron nitride gives rise to compounds that can be soft or hard. Yet, unlike carbon, far less is known about boron nitride's forms and their responses to changing temperatures and pressures.