Dark matter is a mysterious type of matter that does not emit, absorb, or reflect light, yet is predicted to account for most ...

The human eye is a simple, but extremely robust, optical instrument. Analysis by sophisticated wavefront-sensing technology and customized ray-tracing has now revealed that the eye is actually an ...

A research team at Shanghai Jiao Tong University has unveiled Optics GPT, described as the world's first large language model ...

I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that time was “running out” in the race to build the next great optical telescope ...

Researchers at the University of Basel and the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel have demonstrated how quantum mechanical ...

Old satellites and other space junk fall toward Earth every day, and the shock waves they create could be used to track their ...

For decades, bulky spectrometers have been the main tools for understanding how things are made of chemicals (a thing called composition). Spectrometers are a type of lab equipment that uses prisms or ...

Coronagraphs are telescopes equipped with an occulting disk to block out the overwhelming radiation emanated from the visible surface of the Sun, along with optical stops and filters that are ...

Researchers have demonstrated that quantum entanglement can link atoms across space to improve measurement accuracy. By ...

History is often taught as if astronomy followed a single European arc—from Greek philosophy to Renaissance telescopes to modern science—while Africa appears absent or myth-bound. This series, “When ...

A famous night-sky object has yielded a surprise: a narrow, bar-shaped cloud made of highly ionized iron. The discovery comes from a European team led by astronomers at University College London and ...

Competition for the Creative comes in the form of the three-star Amazon Fire TV Soundbar (£120 / $120), and the now ...