Was Vincent van Gogh the original chaos theorist? While we admire the beauty of “The Starry Night,” physicists decided to ...

These were the words Vincent van Gogh sent to his brother Theo from Arles on 18 September 1888. He had arrived in ...

Oklahoma City is now home to the highest-caliber planetarium in the United States, according to the Science Museum Oklahoma.

New scientific research on Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night revealed an unexpected connection between the famous painting ...

The swirling colors and flowing brushstrokes of Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night have secured the painting (and its artist) a ...

But the swirling skies in his masterpiece might be more than a projection of his inner turmoil. According to a new study, van ...

A new study suggests Vincent van Gogh showed a deep, intuitive understanding of the mathematical structure of turbulence in ...

Research into The Starry Night connected brushstrokes and their luminosity to laws of physics governing turbulence.

Have you ever gazed at Vincent van Gogh's iconic painting "The Starry Night" and felt like you could almost see the sky ...

A new study by a team from China and France found that the swirling patterns in the famous painting’s sky very closely ...

Turbulence abounds in nature, from the spinning whorls of hurricanes to the brilliant swirls of Jupiter's immense storms. Astronomers have even observed it where stars are born in the vast maelstrom ...