New observations have revealed early signs of UV light illuminating the cosmos more than 13 billion years ago.

Unexpected, Bright Hydrogen Emission Caught Astronomers by Surprise In the early universe, space was filled with a dense fog ...

LiDAR or "light detection and ranging" is a way of working out and picturing the distance to an object by shooting ...

Digital Foundry interviews the developers of Assassin's Creed Shadows, discussing the major upgrades made to its Anvil Engine.

Discover how iron's opacity in the sun challenges scientific models, and how researchers are working to resolve the discrepancy.

The artworks, part of a new exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, help shed light on a traditional ...

New research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, or ACT, collaboration has produced the clearest images yet of the universe’s ...

The JWST is the largest, most powerful space telescope ever deployed. It sees further into the infrared than any previous ...

Some light will pass through translucent objects like leaves or tissue. No light will pass through solid opaque objects like books and furniture. Let your children experiment with objects that are ...

Brown dwarfs are stellar objects that are born like stars but fail to gather enough matter to reach the masses needed to trigger the fusion of hydrogen to helium in their cores. These bodies with ...

For the time that direct sunlight is blocked, the reddish light passing out of the Earth’s atmosphere bends in such a way ...

Like any opaque object in the path of light, Earth blocks photons from the Sun, casting a shadow behind it into the Solar System. Unlike our planet's rocky bulk, however, Earth's atmosphere is ...