The Lyrids meteor shower, the oldest known, will peak in New York this week. Here's how to see the cosmic light show.

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Researchers have developed a technique for detecting and measuring the concentration of many rare-earth elements in plants, ...

The show will be visible across the globe, but views will be best in the Northern Hemisphere. And there's no risk of the ...

I took the Irix Edge Light Pollution Filter on a night shoot to capture astro and low-light city shots. Here's how I got ...

Imaging earth like exoplanets around Sun-like stars from the ground is challenging. We have never done it and here is an ...

Researchers have shown that surprisingly large metal particles can behave according to quantum mechanics, existing in ...

Light has always carried more than brightness. In this case, it also carries direction and twist. That mix may open a new ...

An instrument that uses high-energy electrons to take "snapshots" of ultrafast chemical processes at the atomic and molecular ...

A UNSW-led team found that annealing conditions significantly affect stress, strain, and microstructure in copper-plated heterojunction solar cell contacts, with fast annealing increasing microstrain ...

A light pulse is technically empty, yet capable of carrying a trillion photons in a single burst. That is part of what makes bright squeezed vacuum, or BSV, so strange. It is formally treated as a ...