NASA selects two proposals for missions to observe X-ray and far-infrared wavelengths of light from space for additional ...

Lightspeed travel is a popular concept in sci-fi and pop culture, but it's not a technology we are likely to see anytime soon ...

Roughly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled just enough to allow photons to escape from the primordial ...

Scientists discovered a way to encode more data into light by creating light vortices with quasicrystals. This method could ...

New research uses electric fields to manipulate metallic nanoparticles capable of producing vortices within the laser light.

The study says that the gravitational distortions observed in distant galaxies exhibit subtle discrepancies with the ...

In a groundbreaking experiment at the Technion Faculty of Physics, researchers demonstrated the transfer of atoms via quantum ...

Some stars may transform into black holes without exploding into supernovae. Now, astronomers have finally spotted it as it ...

The future of transmitting massive amounts of data digitally may be here, thanks to new technology that uses a "hurricane" of ...

Muon colliders could slam the subatomic particles together in hopes of unlocking physics secrets. Giving muons a speed boost is a crucial step.

A team of scientists set out to probe some of the heaviest elements in the periodic table using an advanced form of laser ...

Tiny "hurricanes of light" could revolutionize the transmission of information in a process described as "halfway between ...