A remarkable aspect of this technology is its ability to project entirely different images depending on both the wavelength (color) and spin (polarization direction) of light. For example, ...

Light is all around us, essential for one of our primary senses (sight) as well as life on Earth itself. It underpins many ...

NASA has shared the first closeup images of the Donaldjohanson asteroid, captured by its Lucy spacecraft on a recent flyby around 139 million miles (223 million km) from Earth.

JWST has detected the earliest galaxies in the universe, but some look “more mature” than expected. Is it time to rethink how ...

The science team behind Perseverance wanted to know whether that glow from the Mars aurora could be seen in the visible ...

Among the wreckage of the Milky Way — where the violent deaths of stars usually leave chaos and crumpled shells — astronomers ...

Have you ever had an X-ray taken of your bones? Well, so has the Milky Way. NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory regularly images our home galaxy, and a recent scan caught something that might be familiar ...

A retired researcher has detected an unusual pulse in the light of nearby stars while looking for signs of extraterrestrial ...

A new camera setup can record three-dimensional movies with a single pixel. Moreover, the technique can obtain images outside the visible spectrum and even through tissues. The development thus opens ...

But instead of searching for a planet’s direct light, astronomers used ALMA to identify the ... “The new approaches we’ve developed to gather this data and images are like switching from reading ...

Dark matter is more than five times as abundant as all the visible matter in the universe. So why can't we see any of it?