Scientists discovered strange light pulses that appear without buildup and resist interference, thanks to time’s one-way flow ...

A fireball soared over Mexico City in the early hours of April 16. It wasn't a meteorite, though — it was a bolide, a much brighter object that explodes when it penetrates the atmosphere but doesn't ...

A mysterious flash of light lit up the night sky across Utah on Saturday, sparking a wave of excitement and intrigue. For ...

and there actually is light—at one precise moment in time and point in space," says Prof. Alexander Szameit of the University of Rostock. These fleeting flashes of light, however short ...

Like meteors, space junk travels at vast speeds as it travels through the atmosphere and it begins burning up spectacularly.

A puzzling discovery in NGC 1068 shows a flood of neutrinos but weak gamma rays. Scientists now suspect helium atoms ...

Webb telescope uncovers fiery, fast-pulsing auroras on Jupiter, reshaping how scientists understand the planet’s magnetic ...

Wang and Gao postulate that the green light flashes are caused by streams of ... because the charge carriers are more confined in space, resulting in a larger energy separation between the optical ...