Discover the fascinating world of hydroxyl megamasers, powerful cosmic lasers revealing secrets of distant galaxies and the ...

Using the MeerKAT telescope, South African scientists have detected a record-breaking radio laser from a distant galaxy, ...

A burst of light in the deep sky is doing something it should not be able to do. It looks like one supernova, but it shows up ...

South African astronomers have used the MeerKAT telescope to detect the most distant and powerful natural radio laser ever ...

Using gravitational waves as a measure of the universe's rate of expansion could solve the biggest headache in physics, the ...

That the universe is expanding has been known for almost a hundred years now, but how fast? The exact rate of that expansion ...

You probably imagine NASA hunting for habitable planets, blue worlds, and earth-like atmospheres. Especially signs of life.

Astronomers have used the LOFAR telescope array to create the largest radio survey of the cosmos, revealing 13.7 million ...

Astronomers have identified the most powerful and distant microwave laser, or maser, ever observed, originating from two ...

Supermassive black hole binaries form naturally when galaxies merge, but scientists have only confidently observed a very few of these systems that are widely separated. Black hole binaries that ...

Astronomers have long known the universe is expanding—but exactly how fast remains one of the biggest mysteries in cosmology. Different techniques for measuring the Hubble constant stubbornly disagree ...

Astronomers used AI to search 35 years of Hubble data and discovered over 1,300 rare cosmic anomalies hidden in plain sight.