Optics

Amid pivotal contract talks, Fran Drescher found time for couture over the weekend in Italy.…

The process that powers much of life on Earth, photosynthesis, is so finely tuned that just one photon is enough to…

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has spotted Saturn’s moon Enceladus spraying out a huge plume of water…

Astronomers have witnessed the largest explosion in space.  The explosive event labeled AT2021lwx was observed to…

In a cosmological matchup of “Are they or aren’t they?” the contest is firmly in the former’s favor—10 to one, at…

Looming gaps in astronomers’ views of the heavens could undercut the revolutionary potential of NASA’s…

Interested in staring out at the night sky, or looking to observe nature in all of its beauty? This deal is well…

Do people have a right to an unobstructed view of the heavens? For most of human history, such a question would…

Zeiss’ investment bucks the trend of multinationals trying to reduce their dependence on the world’s second largest…

Deep-field images of “empty” regions of the sky from Webb and other space telescopes are revealing more…