The vacuum ultraviolet region is the area of the electromagnetic spectrum lying between X-rays and visible light. It is ...

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

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Astronomers say a distant, sunlike star shows signs of a catastrophic planet-on-planet crash that may mirror the ancient impact that formed Earth's moon.

Astronomers have uncovered evidence of a dramatic cosmic crash unfolding around a distant star. While reviewing archived ...

Physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have demonstrated a new kind of vacuum ultraviolet laser that is 100 to 1,000 times more efficient than existing technologies of its kind. The ...

In old measurement data, two US researchers found a star that appeared "completely crazy." Apparently, there was a ...

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Electrical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated the fastest pyroelectric photodetector to date that works by absorbing heat generated by incoming light.

Like tiny photobombers, cosmic anomalies resembling small, bright red points show up in almost every snapshot taken by the ...

A recorded radio interview with Dutch astronomer, astrophysicist, and council communist theorist Anton Pannekoek in New York ...