During the Pikes Peak Gold Rush in Colorado, mining camps quickly grew into bustling towns. Glimpses of history can be seen through architectural remains and objects left behind, even red light ...

At dusk on a late October night in 1408, something mysterious lit up the skies above China. Ming Dynasty astronomers who ...

Astronomers have discovered a strange new object in our Milky Way galaxy. The celestial object is emitting X-rays around the ...

In the first of a new series showcasing treasures from the BFI National Archive, we put a spotlight on some big-statement interior decoration: 1950s wallpaper inspired by Powell and Pressburger’s ...

Researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst created silicon-based in-sensor visual processing arrays that can ...

Colour isn't just a physical property; it's how our brains interpret light reflected from objects. Different creatures perceive colours differently, so colour might be more about perception than ...

Astronomers have uncovered a bizarre star, ASKAP J1832, that pulses radio waves and X-rays every 44 minutes—thousands of times slower than typical pulsars. This rare object also dims dramatically over ...

The object, named ASKAP J1832-0911, is located about 15,000 light-years from Earth in the same galaxy as our solar system. The X-ray emissions, ... cool red dwarf star.

I was looking forward to writing a tribute to clear summer skies and great summer stargazing in the Pacific Northwest.

Much of the house is one room deep, so natural light floods in from all sides. Uniacke selected a nearly monochromatic ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggest the cosmos may be much older than once believed. For ...