A new scientific instrument for detecting and observing remote exoplanets has been successfully installed on Unit 3 of the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT). The Spectro ...

The Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch instrument (SPHERE) has been installed on the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal Observatory in ...

Light rays bend around a microscopic sphere just as they would around a gargantuan black hole thanks to a new chip-sized device. The experiment, detailed September 29 in Nature Photonics, demonstrates ...

Tuesday night's 247th Fourth of July celebrations in Las Vegas featured a huge sphere lighting up the night sky. A structure almost similar to a mysterious, black spaceship appears to be parked in the ...

The Fourth of July marks the first anniversary of the Sphere lighting up the Las Vegas skyline. Sphere Entertainment announced that the one-year anniversary of the Exosphere's first illumination on ...

Researchers have developed a technique using a hollow sphere to measure the electronic and optical properties of large semiconducting crystals. The approach could lead to energy savings for mass ...

Little Abraham Torres was distracted between kicking rocks, tour helicopters circling overhead and the huge colorful ball that was glowing a few hundred feet away from him. “What’s in that ball?” he ...