Alien planets are far away but extreme lasers on Earth are giving scientists a way to investigate what they're like.

Lasers aren't just useful for entertaining cats or pointing out features of PowerPoint slides. They can also drill holes on icy extraterrestrial bodies from comets to Mars polar caps—at least, ...

The latest alpha update to Star Citizen brings orbital mining lasers to fix up and fire, miniature sandworms to fight, and even an alien NPC to trade with. Cloud Imperium Games advanced its ...