It goes without saying that the cameras on self-driving cars can't see around the corners of buildings. The ORCa computer vision system, however, could one day allow them to do so … with a little help ...

The article details various types of deep-sky objects observable by amateur astronomers, including double stars, variable stars, open and globular star clusters, emission, planetary, and reflection ...

Discover the science behind seeing your reflection in water. Light travels in straight lines and bounces off smooth surfaces, ...

Reflections transform an everyday object into a powerful study of light, form, and observation in this teapot reflections ...

A strange double object that appeared to be an exact reflection of the same galaxy and its oddball companion, which baffled scientists for years, has led to the discovery of an entirely new galaxy.

Researchers from Nordita (The Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics) at Stockholm University in Sweden, together with colleagues from Vanderbilt University in the United States, have published two ...

Still-life artists know that to make an image of an object look like the real thing, they must account for the way light reflects off it. The appearance of these glimmers—their color, position and ...