We tend to think of habitability in terms of individual planets and their potential to host life. But barring outliers like ...

A team of physicists has uncovered a surprising new way to explore one of science's greatest challenges: uniting the two ...

One year on, NASA scientists are still making huge discoveries about the largest geomagnetic storm to hit Earth in two decades, the ...

Blue light exists on the color spectrum with some of the shortest wavelengths and highest energy. This distinctive property explains both its beneficial and potentially problematic effects on the ...

Tiny carbon tubes beam out stronger light by stealing a boost from internal vibrations—a discovery that could revolutionize ...

Stars don’t just form planets—they may also re-supply their disks with gas, reshaping how and where planets emerge.

The Parthenon's interior has long been seen as a bright marble space, a new 3D model of the temple shows otherwise.

"Dark photon" theory says light's interference patterns may emerge from quantum particles, not waves, upending centuries of ...

Animals with ultraviolet color patterns can be found all over nature. Here’s what we know about what purpose these patterns ...

The new research shows how light would have spilled into the Parthenon's doorway at specific times of the year, which would ...

Deep Space Nine made a breakthrough in the TV show industry, while continuing to feature an interstellar setting and themes of hope versus despair, human nature and potential effects, dark ...

(CNN) — After an uneven rollout that left many scrambling for Department of Motor Vehicles appointments ahead of the long-anticipated enforcement of REAL ID, air travel across the US went ...