It is possible to make a material emit more radiation than it absorbs, violating the laws of physics in a way that could make ...

New results published in the journal Physical Review Letters detail how a specially designed metamaterial was able to tip the ...

The Gemini North telescope and Subaru Telescope have been used to discover most distant merging quasars yet, "seen over 900 ...

When the first astronauts walked on the moon as part of the Apollo Program, the concept of lunar habitats ceased being the ...

“Scientists have long observed that the capability for a material to absorb electromagnetic radiation — a wave of energy in ...

A new material called Alloy 30 shrinks when it is heated and expands when it is cooled and it could help with telescope ...

Because it shrinks when other materials expand, Allvar Alloy 30 can be used to strategically compensate for the expansion and ...

Researchers in Japan have accelerated muons into the most precise, high-intensity beam to date, reaching energies high as 100 keV. The achievement could enable next-generation experiments such as ...

A new silicon material switches from insulator to metal in picoseconds. This breakthrough could speed up future computers.

Japan’s Himawari weather satellites, designed to watch Earth, have quietly delivered a decade of infrared snapshots of Venus.

In a historic milestone for space exploration, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has delivered the closest-ever images of the Sun — a blistering 3.8 million miles from its roiling surface. The new images ...

Now, NASA has released remarkable video captured during the historic flyby, offering the closest views of the sun ever ...