Astronomers using the MeerKAT telescope discovered a hydroxyl megamaser in a galactic merger 8 billion light-years away, amplified by gravitational lensing and operating at radio wavelengths.

What strikes the eye in this seemingly ordinary image of an astronomical observatory are the laser beams piercing the ...

The use of optical lasers between orbiting satellites are commonplace. Less common is using lasers from Earth to satellites.

Astrolight CEO Laurynas Mačiulis explains how laser satellite communication could ease spectrum congestion, increase data capacity, and raise new engineering and policy questions for space ...

A record-breaking cosmic signal detected by South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope is signalling a deeper shift in where frontier ...

Releasing that much energy requires an unfathomable furnace, and in this case that's the power of two galaxies smashing into each other to become one.

A research team is using astrophysical explosions to understand the mysterious forces at work in some of the smallest building blocks in nature: atomic nuclei. In new research published in Nature ...

The lasers alone would cost around one trillion dollars and the technology to create a nanocraft does not yet exist.

The catastrophic collision of a black hole and a neutron star sent ripples across the universe. New analysis of those ripples ...

“Such a system is indeed extraordinary,” said Dr. Thato Manamela. We are witnessing radio equivalent of a laser half way through the universe. The “laser” under discussion is not a beam of lightsaber ...

In a discovery that astronomers are calling a “truly extraordinary” find, a powerful "space laser" mega-beam has been ...

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