The Universe is the stage for titanic collisions between massive objects, generating waves that propagate through the fabric of space-time. The detection of these gravitational waves has ushered in ...

Using images from the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb), an international research team including Western's Stanimir Metchev ...

A new study reveals how shifting ice shells on icy moons can cause dramatic pressure changes, sometimes enough to boil their hidden oceans. The outer planets of our Solar System are accompanied by ...

How does galaxy location drive galaxy structure and star formation? This is what a recent study published in the Monthly ...

Using the Webb telescope’s powerful Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) instrument, the team detected a sprawling helium cloud known as an exosphere. This exosphere stretches ...

An international team including astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the National Center of Competence in ...

The satellite is operated and run by Blue Skies Space, a U.K.-space science data company and was launched aboard SpaceX’s ...

We've all had the thought — wouldn't it be nice if summer were just a little longer? Well, it might become a reality in the ...

Harvard scientist Avi Loeb believes that 3I/ATLAS boasts a “heartbeat”-like pulse that could provide evidence of its ...

One factor jumped out: the sex of the human. Cats were much more vocal when the returning person was male. The researchers, ...

Have scientists finally confirmed the existence of the first exomoon? This is what a study released on the preprint server arXiv, and accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics, hopes to ...

Still, science being science, we needed proof—and we got it in 1992, when two astronomers found two planets orbiting a pulsar ...