A skier in Austria captured a stunning sun pillar, a rare optical phenomenon where ice crystals reflect sunlight, creating a ...

Rainbows Rainbows are one of nature's most enchanting spectacles, forming beautiful arcs of color in the sky. They occur when ...

A optical illusion appeared off the First Coast this week, making it seem as though a ship was hovering above and out of the ...

Nature is capable of the most mysterious, surreal, stunning, and powerful things. The only thing we can do as humans is to ...

An article published in the journal Optica describes the development of a new experimental device that explores the boundary ...

The atmospheric optical phenomenon is caused by light refracting from ice crystals, according to AccuWeather. Light pillars appear as beams of light to observers and tend to take on the color of ...

A multidisciplinary team of researchers from Rice and Texas A&M has received a $1.2 million award from the W.M. Keck ...

This includes classical optical phenomena such as reflection, refraction, diffraction and interference, and also studying the quantum mechanical properties of individual packets of lights known as ...