Penn State astronomers are using data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, combined with theoretical models, to investigate a distant, radiation-bathed protoplanetary disk. The basic ingredients ...

A new kind of stellar explosion provides a novel way to probe the distant universe, according to new results published today ...

University of Warwick astronomers have uncovered compelling evidence that a nearby white dwarf is in fact the remnant of two ...

The exact mechanism whereby UV light might lengthen lives is unknown. The authors, for their part, believe part of the explanation may lie in vitamin D’s ability to boost the immune system and ...

Scorpions are one of many animals that appear to glow under ultraviolet (UV) light. Scientists are finding that photoluminescence is more common than previously suspected. Photograph by David ...

A typical white dwarf’s core elements are obscured by thick layers of hydrogen and helium—but that covering almost entirely ...

These modules were illuminated for 4,200 h, and samples were also tested for up to 1,300 h under ultraviolet radiation and an elevated temperature, to test the effects of UV light alone.