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What happens when a solar superstorm hits Mars? Thanks to the European Space Agency's Mars orbiters, we now know: glitching ...

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

A new study proposes that a crash between Titan and another moon spawned Hyperion and, much later, destabilized Saturn’s ...

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An international team of astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered the aftermath of what some call "galactic cannibalism:" the aftermath of a 100 million-year-old cosmic collision ...

The galaxy NGC 941 was imaged by the Subaru Telescope at the summit of Maunakea, Hawai'i. Using the Subaru Telescope located ...

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

The researchers said that the "hydroxyl gigamaser" was generated by the merger of two galaxies some 8 billion light-years ...

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

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