Scientists have long been fascinated by how light interacts with matter. At the heart of this curiosity are photons—particles that carry light—as they pass through different materials. When photons ...

Carbon dioxide has been detected on a planet outside our solar system for the first time. The gas has been observed directly by the James Webb Space Telescope on four exoplanets, all belonging to ...

What if we spend decades building advanced telescopes to search for life on other planets and come up emptyhanded? A recent ...

A new paper from an international team of more than 50 researchers, including four from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of ...

New Webb Telescope data confirms that asteroid 2024 YR4 poses no threat to Earth during its 2032 flyby. As for the Moon, not ...

New observations of the cosmos show that the dark energy, a mysterious force that accelerates the expansion of the universe, is evolving.