The biggest blockbuster results from the first weeks of the James Webb Space Telescope’s research have involved seeing massive galaxies across the most extreme distances and times imaginable. But some ...

Messier 24, initially cataloged by Charles Messier in 1764, was incorrectly identified for over two centuries as NGC 6603. M24 is not a distinct object like a nebula or cluster, but rather a region in ...

In a new study, researchers at CU Boulder have used doughnut-shaped beams of light to take detailed images of objects too tiny to view with traditional microscopes. The new technique could help ...

The flexible "fingers" at the tip of an elephant's trunk have provided the inspiration for a versatile robotic gripper capable of picking up and holding onto a variety of objects both large and small ...

The future of imaging extremely small objects may come down to doughnut-shaped beams of light, according to a study from researchers at JILA and the Department of Physics. The study explored the ...