A new computational breakthrough is giving scientists a clearer view into how dark matter structures evolve. Dark matter has ...

Halos are faint white rings that show up in the sky both around the sun and moon. According to weather lore, halos have been thought to signal wet weather on the way as indicated in the phrase "a ring ...

For the first time in almost 5,000 years of observations, researchers have fully cataloged optical illusions created in the sky as light shines through ice crystals known as atmospheric halos. The ...

Coral reef halos, also known as grazing halos or sand halos, are bands of bare, sandy seafloor that surround coral patch reefs. These features, clearly-visible from satellite imagery, may provide a ...

The last decade of Elizabeth Madin’s work began with one day of terrible weather. In 2010 she and her husband, Joshua, both ecologists, flew to Heron Island in Australia to study how fishing ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- When you hear the word halo, you may think of an angel. The topic here is halos, but these ones are in the sky, and something I get asked about a lot. They are sun halos, or the ...

You may have noticed the ring around the moon Saturday night. In fact, we received a lot of pictures of it through WRAL Weather Watchers. When I posted the picture to Facebook, there were a number of ...

Dark matter makes up an estimated 85% of the universe. But because it doesn't interact with light, it has never been observed and is difficult to study. Using a simulation of the universe, Harvard ...