The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, located on a mountaintop in Chile, unveiled vibrant images Monday of colorful nebulas, stars ...

To make a truly realistic fake picture of a galaxy, you can model exactly how light particles travel through the atmosphere ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to discover 20 billion new galaxies over the next decade. A total view of the Virgo ...

Astronomy fans can zoom in practically forever into the stunning first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory ...

These are the first public images collected by the Chile-based observatory, which will begin a decade-long survey of the southern sky later this year.

LOFAR is a massive radio telescope that comprises 100,000 antennas spread across eight European countries. The researchers ...

Matter in intergalactic space is not randomly scattered - it forms a vast network of filamentary structures that make up the ...

Centrosymmetric crystals have always absorbed equal amounts of left- and right-handed circularly polarized light—until now ...

The earliest light in the universe has been traveling across space since just after the Big Bang. Known as the cosmic ...

Scientists are working to understand the curious phenomena of red sprites, green ghosts and blue jets high above ...

Physicists tested the Greenberger–Horne–Zeilinger (GHZ) paradox, which is at the heart of quantum theory, to measure light ...

We investigated the dispersion and modal properties of a photonic crystal fiber (PCF) with larger air holes (LAH). The theoretical and numerical results show that large anomalous group-velocity ...