As a result, purple and magenta are known as "nonspectral" colors, because they don't really exist as actual electromagnetic ...

New Ocula imaging service offers high-resolution ultraviolet and visible spectrum imaging of the Moon from lunar orbit CEDAR ...

The Marie-Thérèse Pink, thought to have belonged to Marie Antoinette, was auctioned by Christie’s in New York.

People from cultures across the world have been looking at Mars since ancient times. Because it appears reddish, it has often ...

Mars isn’t a bright, fire-engine red, but the iron oxide in its rocks makes it appear redder than other planets, especially ...

A pair of European satellites have created the first artificial solar eclipses through precise and fancy formation flying.

If you live in the southern hemisphere and have been stopped in your tracks by a recent sunset, you may have noticed they seem more vibrant lately. The colors are brighter and bolder, and they ...

Mars isn't a bright, fire-engine red, but the iron oxide in its rocks makes it appear redder than other planets, especially ...

Researchers created nanoscale glass structures with near-perfect reflectance, overturning long-held assumptions about what ...

Despite expansion of the fluorescent protein and optical highlighter palette into the orange to far-red range of the visible spectrum, achieving performance equivalent to that of EGFP has ...

Now, researchers from Japan have developed a self-powered artificial synapse that distinguishes colors with high resolution across the visible spectrum, approaching human eye capabilities.

Neuroscientists and materials scientists have created contact lenses that enable infrared vision in both humans and mice by converting infrared light into visible light. Unlike infrared night ...