NASA's SPHEREx has mapped the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, revealing hidden details about galaxies and the early universe.

In the first fractions of a second after the Big Bang, the universe ballooned outward at a speed that still defies explanation, stretching space itself before stars or even atoms had a chance to form.

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Launched in March, NASA's SPHEREx space telescope has completed its first infrared map of the entire sky in 102 colors. While not visible to the human eye, these 102 infrared wavelengths of light are ...

Scientists in Switzerland have developed an ultra-thin metalens that converts invisible infrared light into visible light by halving its wavelength, using nanoscale patterns stamped into a special ...

The primary source of infrared radiation is heat -- the radiation produced by the thermal motion of charged particles in matter, including the motion of the atoms and molecules in an object. The ...

Neuroscientists and materials scientists have created contact lenses that enable infrared vision in both humans and mice by converting infrared light into visible light. Unlike infrared night vision ...