The puzzling findings of a telescope designed and built by researchers at the University of British Columbia are being shared with the astronomical community for further analysis.
The CHIME telescope detected 535 new fast radio bursts during its first year of operation – from 2018 to 2019 – quadrupling the...
Japan's space agency says samples collected by its asteroid probe Hayabusa2 contain some pieces of gravel measuring nearly one centimeter..
Researchers at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, have been working to open the storage device of a capsule released by Hayabusa2.
The capsule, which contains samples from the remote...
The kitchen can be a confusing place for most novices. Things like how to chop vegetables or how to properly heat food can intimidate those who are not familiar with kitchen regulations. However, there is one such element that belongs to the kitchen that even most connoisseurs are not...
Researchers have peered out into the vast expanse and discovered what they believe is the oldest, most distant galaxy till date.
We’ve all asked ourselves the big questions at times: “How big is the universe?” or “How and when did galaxies form?” Astronomers take these questions very seriously, and use...
There’s a controversial theory concerning the origins of life on Earth, which states that the first microbes to appear on the planet arrived as passengers on a meteorite. Known as panspermia, this hypothesis depends on the ability of tiny organisms to survive colossal impacts, which is why a team...
Black holes are perhaps the most mysterious objects in nature. They warp space and time in extreme ways and contain a mathematical impossibility, a singularity – an infinitely hot and dense object within. But if black holes exist and are truly black, how exactly would we ever be able...
The night sky will feature its version of fireworks to kick off the 2021 as the first weekend of the new year brings the peak of the Quadrantid meteor shower.
Although winter has just begun for the Northern Hemisphere, the Quadrantids is the season's final meteor shower before there is...
While water blasting at a wall of frozen mud in Yukon, Canada, a gold miner made an extraordinary discovery: a perfectly preserved wolf pup that had been locked in permafrost for 57,000 years. The remarkable condition of the pup, named Zhùr by the local Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in people, gave researchers...
A cosmonaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) captured stunning images of the record-setting Soyuz aircraft launch that brought three of his colleagues to the orbiting laboratory.
It was at 1.45 a.m. EDT on Wednesday when NASA astronaut Kate Rubins and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov were transported...
As Chile and Argentina witnessed the total solar eclipse on December 14, 2020, unbeknownst to skywatchers, a little tiny speck was flying past the Sun — a recently discovered comet.
This comet was first spotted in satellite data by Thai amateur astronomer Worachate Boonplod on the NASA-funded Sungrazer Project —...
