Bursts of light captured crashing into the moon last week were caused by dual asteroid strikes against the lunar surface that ...

Since man first looked up to the sky, the moon has been one of the most fascinating and admired celestial bodies. It appears ...

A blue sky with the sun surrounded by a white circle bisected with a white line and two bright spots either side of the circle. A scientist recently snapped a series of shining arcs and halos of light ...

Auroras are among the most spectacular phenomena in the night sky, thrilling travelers and photographers with wispy displays of green light. But these auroras are not the only thing lighting up the ...

Editor’s Note: Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Reports of “earthquake lights,” like the ...

The list of things occasionally mistaken for UFOs is long, but among the oddest is a series of winter phenomena with odd names like sundogs, halos and sun pillars. Examples began showing up this ...

Dark excitons are exotic light-matter states found in atomically thin semiconductors. They usually remain invisible because ...

Researchers have discovered details about a novel type of polarized-light matter interaction with light that literally turns end over end as it propagates from a source. A scientist might want to do ...

Much of the world of mysteries involving the paranormal field are surrounded by tales of ghosts, ufos, and cryptids. One thing that goes unnoticed is the spook light phenomena. These mysterious balls ...