What a spectacle a big aurora is, its shimmering curtains and colourful rays of light illuminating a dark sky. Many people refer to aurora as the northern lights (the aurora borealis), but there are ...

STAR WARS fans are in luck as scientists have found a way to make particles of light behave more like matter, giving hope to the idea of a real life lightsaber. The technology is far away from ...

Heightened solar activity meant 2025 was one of the best years to see the northern lights and capture them on camera.

Take, for instance, quantum entanglement, which says that the state of one particle can be determined by examining the state ...

When a team of physicists announced that they had proved Einstein wrong, even they weren’t convinced. So they ran the test again – and broke the speed of light for a second time. Scientists from Cern, ...

The Northern Lights are set to be visible across the UK, from Scotland to southern Wales, this weekend (January 2 - 4), according to the Met Office.

Dark matter is an elusive type of matter that does not emit, absorb or reflect light, interacting very weakly with ordinary ...

A major solar storm is expected to slam into Earth tonight, potentially causing vibrant Northern Lights displays but also raising concerns about possible power outages. Scientists are calling the ...

Einstein's famous E=mc2 equation was first published on November 21, 1905, and arose from his special relativity theory. It states that if you smash two sufficiently energetic photons, or light ...

Wildfire smoke is no longer just a short‑lived air quality problem drifting over cities for a few hazy days. New research shows that when these plumes rise high into the atmosphere, they can spawn ...