Learn why the sky is blue through the lens of physics and chemistry. Discover the science behind Rayleigh scattering, light ...

The evening sky turned an eerie shade of deep red in eastern Thailand. Stunned villagers witnessed the bizarre cloud phenomenon during the sunset at the Bangsaen Beach, in Chonburi, on September 27.

SEATTLE: Those mesmerizing blue and orange hues in the sky at the start and end of a sunny day might have an essential role ...

What better way to end than with some examples of said beauty and utility? After all that reading, we'll leave you with a few glamour shots of our favorite nebula: Messier 16, better known as the ...

From Aldebaran to Vega, these gleaming beacons dazzle Northern Hemisphere viewers at various times of the year and provide a ...

Therefore, a red sky in the morning serves as a warning of deteriorating weather conditions. The red color itself is due to shorter wavelengths of blue and violet light getting scattered out of ...

The right weather during the fall can promote more intense leaf color production, too, Harvard Forest says. The reds require ...

The massive star-forming complex known as the Lobster Nebula is part of the biggest infrared map of the Milky Way galaxy ever ...

The sky is blue because the white sunlight is scattered by different angles depending on the color (wavelength) of the photon. Blue more, and red less. So blue light can travel less in the atmosphere, ...

The ancient Greeks rarely described anything as blue. This quirk has inspired research on the surprising connection between ...

Normal rainbows are created when sunlight is refracted off a raindrop, separating the various colors from the wavelengths of light into a band of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and ...