Imagine, right now, as you read these words, you're immersed in an unseen ocean of energy. Waves are zipping through your ...

Light can tell you a lot about what matter is doing. Visible light shows a surface. X-rays reveal hidden structure. Infrared ...

A new metasurface design lets light of different spins bend, focus, and behave independently—while staying sharp across many ...

MIT researchers have built a terahertz microscope that reveals hidden quantum motion inside superconductors for the first time.

Quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) are a rare phenomenon in active galactic nuclei. They have been observed to occur at ...

You can tell a lot about a material based on the type of light shining at it: Optical light illuminates a material's surface, ...

NASA says the energy from a flare travels at the speed of light. Therefore, a flare can be seen from Earth about 8 minutes ...

Fired from a vast sunspot, the "coronal mass ejection" is expected to reach Earth on either Thursday or Friday this week.

SINGAPORE, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Germany is weighing investments ranging from spy satellites and space planes to offensive lasers under a 35 billion euro ($41 billion) military space spending plan aimed ...

Johns Hopkins APL has named Brian Geesaman precision strike mission area executive to lead kinetic and non-kinetic weapons ...

You can point to red, green, and blue on a rainbow, but not purple. That’s because it doesn’t actually exist in the spectrum ...