Over the past few days, several videos of what appeared to be two fireballs racing across the evening sky have gone viral on social media sites. Many people thought they were witnessing a ...

Owing to the wave nature of light there are many ways that such different waves can interact with each other, but also with materials. Everyone knows about reflecting light with a mirror, which is a ...

In about a year, a new NASA instrument designed and built in Colorado will ride on the International Space Station (ISS). From there, it will look down at Earth to measure the light reflecting off our ...

NASA has recently detected a peculiar light emanating from the asteroid belt, sparking intrigue and speculation within the scientific community. This unexpected discovery has led to various hypotheses ...

As a car travels along a narrow city street, reflections off the glossy paint or side mirrors of parked vehicles can help the driver glimpse things that would otherwise be hidden from view, like a ...

A momentary gleam of starlight could reveal alien construction to the next generation of telescopes, a recent paper suggests. We’ve all experienced it: the glint of sunlight bouncing off a car ...

In 2020, scientists at Purdue University developed a new super-white acrylic paint that reflects 95.5 percent of sunlight. Since then, they’ve made it even whiter, with a new formula that has ...