A new type of flat, razor-thin telescope lens could transform deep-space stargazing by making it possible to mount lightweight but powerful telescopes onto aircraft and satellites, scientists say.

Every winter, thousands of tourists travel to high-latitude regions like Scandinavia, Canada, and Alaska hoping to see the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights. Vincent Ledvina, an aurora guide and Ph.D ...

A new ultrathin photodetector from Duke University can sense light across the entire electromagnetic spectrum and generate a ...

As a space scientist, every time I go outside with my family, I tell my children to look up at the sky. The front door of our ...

For this month's ESA/Hubble Picture of the Month, NASA/ESA's Hubble Space Telescope is joined by ESA's Euclid to create a new ...

Blue light is a high-energy part of visible light from the sun, screens, and light-emitting diode (LED) bulbs. Your cornea and lens don’t block blue light the way they block ultraviolet (UV) rays.

Today, organisations such as Unesco, the UN body for education, science and culture, are grappling with how schools and universities can respond to rising misinformation and declining trust in ...

Ultraviolet or infrared light beyond the range of human vision plays a vital role in communication technologies, medical diagnostics, and optical sensing. UV (100–400 nm) and NIR (0.75–1.4 μm) ...

Uranus and Neptune will also be on the scene, too dim to see with the naked eye.

In the early 1980s, Japanese physicist Masatoshi Koshiba was constructing a pioneering experimental facility to detect neutrinos from the Sun. Neutrinos are chargeless, invisible and notoriously ...