A rare astronomical event will light up the night sky in January as six planets will be visible from the naked eye in what is ...

As light goes through an interface, its speed changes. The solution for the behavior of light on one side of the interface or ...

Six planets will be visible from the visible eye throughout January in a somewhat rare astronomical occurrence known as a ...

Left and right circularly polarized light, where the electromagnetic waves spiral in a clockwise and counterclockwise manner ...

Collaborative work by amateur and professional astronomers has helped to resolve a long-standing misunderstanding about the composition of Jupiter's clouds. Instead of being formed of ammonia ice -- ...

This leads Sid and his friends to investigate shadows at The Science Center. They explore ways to create a shadow by blocking a light source and discover that shadows show shapes but not details like ...

Two studies show that the light emitted by nanocrystals embedded with luminescent ions can be used to sense forces with high spatial resolution — even when those forces are inside a microscopic ...

During this process, the moon’s shadow is cast over the Earth. New moon nights are ideal for astronomers because of the lack of moonlight. It makes objects that are usually difficult to view ...

Finland says a ship affiliated with Russia's "shadow fleet" is linked to a 60-mile-long anchor drag mark on the seafloor. A power cable in the... Finnish authorities investigating a severed ...

Authorities believe the vessel, Eagle S, is part of Russia's "shadow fleet," a network of ships with uncertain ownership used to evade Western oil sanctions imposed over the war in Ukraine.