A team of scientists is developing a "quantum-sensitive" device that could capture direct images of Earth-like exoplanets — something astronomers tend to consider so difficult it's nearly impossible.

Finding another Earth is the holy grail of modern astronomy. NASA’s upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is ...

(via Be Smart) The James Webb Telescope just took a photo of a newly discovered exoplanet. Exciting stuff but the raw image just looks like a small, faint dot—not a fully detailed world. The question ...

Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) have unveiled a planar optical device that ...

For 75 years, scientists have consistently pondered the Fermi Paradox, which asks why we don’t hear from other civilizations when there are so many Earth-like worlds in the galaxy. A recent study ...

(a) Working principle of metasurface displacement measurement can be understood as the detection of the power of different modes of the converted light. The incident irradiated on the metasurface and ...