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

Despite sounding like something out of pulpy '50s sci-fi, 'space lasers' are real – and astrophysicists have now spotted the ...

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 ...

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

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

Astrophysicists have identified the brightest, most distant 'space laser', or gigamaser, originating from a galactic collision 8 billion light-years away.

Earthlings aren't the only ones safe from a city-wrecking-size asteroid. Future lunar inhabitants won't have to worry about a ...

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

Astronomers have used the LOFAR telescope array to create the largest radio survey of the cosmos, revealing 13.7 million cosmic scenes, including supermassive black holes, merging galaxies, and ...

An extraordinarily rare, gravitationally lensed supernova may offer a powerful new way to measure the universe’s expansion rate.

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