If we’re hallucinating, we may not be hallucinating exactly the same thing.

The James Webb Space Telescope was squeezed inside the nose cone of an Ariane 5 rocket and then launched. It deployed its ...

Appreciation of light unites humanity: sunsets gleaming through clouds, the face of a loved one in a candle’s glow, lasers ...

Rainbows may be a trick of the eye, but they’re also based in fascinating optical physics. Here's how they work and why we see them.

Sunday's Light Cone is reportedly named "Return Flight to Terra/Earth," while Fugue's is listed ... Icarus falling after flying too close to the sun, which could symbolize the character's own ...

Situated 2,500 light-years away in the constellation Monoceros, cold gas pillars like the Cone are typical in vast star-forming regions and serve as nurseries for emerging stars. Located 7,100 ...

Hale-Bopp originated in the Oort Cloud, a theoretical shell of icy planetesimals surrounding the sun in the outer reaches of ...

Normally, when you look at a rainbow, the Earth’s horizon in front of you hides the bottom half of the circle. But if you are ...

Approximately every 11 years, at the peak of this cycle, the Sun’s magnetic poles flip—similar to the North and South Poles on Earth swapping ... explosions of light, energy, and solar ...

The discovery brings a glimmer of hope for Earth's survival when our sun enters its final stages. A team of astronomers has uncovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a star located 4,000 light years ...