Astronauts Steven Smith and John Grunsfeld, appear as small figures in this wide-angle photograph from December 1999, taken ...

Only a tiny sliver of the Universe’s light can be seen by human eyes. But today we’re catching glimpses of the invisible ...

A team in China has woven tiny, light-converting particles into soft contact lenses, granting wearers the power to perceive ...

Unlike the camera on your phone, for example ... the electromagnetic spectrum that humans cannot see.” The way that Hubble images are produced is similar to how the James Webb Space Telescope ...

A narrow-band image of the Sun at a wavelength of λ=588.9nm - that of a well known solar sodium line also known as the “NaD line.” The image was acquired during recent first light efforts ...

Lesser-known but equally vital instruments focus on different wavelengths. “The object was to have a major telescope in each part of the electromagnetic spectrum,” says Giovanni Fazio ...

Well, those wavelengths lie in the infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum — and on April 1, NASA announced its brand new infrared space telescope, SPHEREx, has officially opened its ...

When I give a public talk about space and show off the latest dazzling images from the Hubble Space Telescope or ... light from across the electromagnetic spectrum. For example, you could make ...

Black holes and soccer balls don't have much in common, but if black holes are curved when kicked, it might say something deep about the cosmos.

Light is radiation visible to the human eye Light is energy called electromagnetic radiation. It’s made up of a stream of energy particles called photons. Each photon has its own energy level.

The electromagnetic spectrum is ... which expands the wavelengths the equipment works at. The name is a misnomer, Henning said, “because our plan is to have one big telescope across the U.S ...