Have you spotted any “night lights”? These phenomena brighten dark skies with celestial light ranging from mild to dazzling: the subtle light pyramid of the zodiacal light, the eerie twilight glow of ...

Researchers at Cornell University have developed the first-ever reflectance spectra — essentially a color-coded key — of the ...

A Newsday photographer captured the northern lights over Patchogue, an image of the other-worldly glow of the aurora borealis ...

Bathed in the cosmic glow of stars, the NASA Picture of the Day unveils a celestial spectacle - the graceful beauty of dusty galactic cirrus clouds adorning the Milky Way. A captivating image captured ...

Every community has a tourist attraction everyone knows about but locals never visit. Perhaps it's because it's always there and can be seen anytime. And yet "anytime" often ends up translating to ...

November’s full beaver moon and the Southern Taurid meteor shower peak on the same day this week. Here’s how and when to ...

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Researchers jointly developed an originative radio receiver DESHIMA (Deep Spectroscopic High-redshift Mapper) and successfully obtained the first spectra and images with it. Combining the ability to ...