When Anastasios Tzanidakis was sifting through some older telescope observations, he stumbled across something that should ...

A team of astronomers at the University of Washington has identified what appears to be the aftermath of two planets smashing ...

Despite years of debate and follow-up studies, an odd streak of cosmic light still defies a final explanation. Is it a giant ...

Astronomers say a distant, sunlike star shows signs of a catastrophic planet-on-planet crash that may mirror the ancient ...

This year’s Winter Olympics was the first to deploy the fluoro wax test, which is based on Fourier transform infrared ...

Thanks to modern LED bulbs, light is cheaper than ever to make—except for one particular kind. Three University of Chicago scientists have announced an innovative way to create infrared light, which ...

When things vibrate, they make sounds. Molecules do too, but at frequencies far beyond human hearing. Chemical bonds stretch, bend and twist at characteristic rates that fall in the infrared region of ...

The Galaxy Evolution Probe (GEP) is a concept for a mid and far-infrared space observatory designed to survey sky for star-forming galaxies from redshifts of z = 0 to beyond z = 4. Furthering our ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. In recent years, gaseous biofluid analysis has gained popularity as a diagnostic ...