The invention of tiny devices capable of precisely controlling the direction and behavior of light is essential to the ...

Many organisms leverage showy colors for attracting mates. Because color is a property of light (determined by its wavelength), it is easy for humans to see how these colors are used in animal ...

Researchers developed a method to reduce uncertainty in cosmic birefringence, sharpening the angle tied to parity violation, ...

Cuttlefish attract prospective sexual partners by creating a pattern on their skin, based on the orientation of light waves.

NEW YORK - Many of the snazziest decorations in the animal kingdom are charm offensives, put on by creatures trying to mate.

A repeating fast radio burst has just given up one of its biggest secrets. Long-term observations revealed a rare signal ...

New insights are emerging into one of astronomy’s most perplexing signals. An international research team led in part by ...

An ominous part of space.

Dustin Swarm, an astrophysicist and assistant professor at the University of Iowa, recently helped capture the first X-ray view of a white dwarf star. Swarm, in collaboration with MIT, studied the ...

FAST observations reported by Universe Today and the University of Hong Kong identify a repeating fast radio burst whose signals indicate an origin within a binary star system.

The observed near flatness of galactic rotation curves has long been interpreted as evidence for large amounts of non-baryonic dark matter. Here we show that this phenom ...