Learn about the optical rotatum, a newfound structure of light that exhibits a spiral pattern linked with various parts of ...

Pushing the limits of structured light, applied physicists report a new type of optical vortex beam that not only twists as it travels but also changes in different parts at different rates to create ...

April’s full moon looks smaller than usual this month, and despite its “pink moon” namesake, the orb will have a white-golden ...

Light doesn’t just travel in straight lines—it can also twist. And when it does, it opens new frontiers in science and medicine. A recent breakthrough led by Professor Igor Meglinski at Aston ...

The Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH), a consortium led by Baylor College of Medicine with partners MIT and Caltech, is ...

NASA officials want to send two private missions to the International Space Station over the next two years and are seeking ...

National Laboratory is taking a giant leap in fostering new space innovators with the launch of the Orbital Edge ...

Liftoff from the company’s Florida launchpad occurred around 9:46 p.m. ET. • This mission is ... that most hinges on Fram2’s chosen orbital path, SolarMaX — as the project is called ...

A crew of four passengers — led by a cryptocurrency billionaire — is set to launch aboard a SpaceX capsule that will carry ...

The unmanned Spectrum rocket, an orbital rocket developed by German start-up Isar Aerospace, started smoking from its sides and then crashed back to Earth with a powerful explosion after launching ...

Despite the short test flight, Isar Aerospace said that it successfully completed the first test flight of its orbital launch vehicle by launching its Spectrum rocket from the island of Andøya in ...

The rocket, launched by Isar Aerospace from within the Arctic Circle at a spaceport on the icy Norwegian island of Andøya, was the first orbital flight outside of Russia to leave continental Europe.