As part of the 2025 Beaker Street Science Photography Prize, photographer Ben Alldridge submitted a photo of a wild Eastern ...

Other animals’ eyes glow too. Many other animals that need to see at night have a tapetum lucidum. That includes predators and prey alike, everything from wild foxes to farmed sheep and goats. The ...

See the Baby Glow-in-the-Dark Shark Hatched at the Tennessee Aquarium In coastal waters, swell sharks appear a glowing green color to other members of their species due to a special eye adaptation ...

If confirmed, future missions could use the eerie glow to map out the complex chemistry of the icy surface—and perhaps find clues to what’s in the ocean below.