Standing on Earth and gazing out into the night sky, you’d think our Milky Way galaxy is relatively calm. Most nearby ...

"Astronomers have been studying the heavens for thousands of years, but until recently much of the cosmos has been invisible to the human eye. Launched in 2003, the Spitzer Space Telescope has brought ...

Observatory focused on Sagittarius B2, giant molecular cloud located just a few hundred light-years from supermassive black ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) reveals a stunning view of star-forming region Sagittarius C ...

From evening drives to navigating a house or a park in the dark, there are so many situations where it'd be handy to slip on a simple pair of night-vision lenses and the world that's beyond human ...

According to data from the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes, the origins of the free-flying photons in the early cosmic ...

When I was a teenager, I was—shockingly, I know—deeply nerdy. At a science-fiction convention, I bought a button that read, “186,282 miles/second: Not just a good idea, it’s the law.” It was poking ...

A surprising therapy is showing promise for chronic pain, vision loss, and muscle recovery, among other conditions. It's not a pill, an injection, or surgery. It's light. Yes, light. The thing that ...