The US Space Command (USSC) on Tuesday confirmed that the meteor that struck Earth in 2014 was an interstellar object, meaning it came from a different star system. The USSC, in a memo released earli… [+2264 chars]
The CMS collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has performed the most accurate ever measurement of the mass of the top quarkthe heaviest known elementary particle. The latest CMS result est… [+3234 chars]
The Rothney Astrophysical Observatory will be hosting a space night, touting the benefits of dark skies for stargazing and wildlife. The April 23 event is part of International Dark Sky Week, which … [+2103 chars]
Meteorite hunters won’t have a field day in the Barrie area, but people may have seen something streaking through the air on the weekend. Western University’s physics and astronomy department says a… [+3081 chars]
Zoom/ A trapped blow fly on a carnivorous dewy plant. Cathy Kiefer | GT Towards the end of the 19th century, horrific stories about killer plants began to appear everywhere. Terrible tentacled tree… [+4644 chars]
New research might have finally found why one side of the Moon's surface is different from the other. The research revealed that one side of the Moon's surface might have been impacted when a massi… [+2046 chars]
The Rothney Astrophysical Observatory will be hosting a space night, touting the benefits of dark skies for stargazing and wildlife. The April 23 event is part of International Dark Sky Week, which … [+2103 chars]
Over Hawaii, a decaying SpaceX rocket stage created a unique "night spiral." The Subaru Telescope recorded video of the "flying whirlpool" over Mauna Kea on Sunday, hours after a California-based Fa… [+1392 chars]
Fossil trilobites. getty Five hundred million years ago, the oceans teemed with trillions of trilobites - an extinct group of marine arthropods ruling the seas for more than 270 million years. Over… [+2410 chars]
(Photo: Rocket Lab) Tomorrow a private aerospace company will attempt to snatch its own rocket booster out of mid air using a helicopter. Southern California-based Rocket Lab builds and launches a v… [+2156 chars]
One year ago today (April 19), an aircraft flew on a world beyond Earth for the first time ever. That history-making vehicle is NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter, which landed inside the Red Planet… [+4562 chars]
Because of its outstanding transparency as well as its stability in contact with heat or chemicals, glass is relevant for many high-tech applications. However, conventional processes for shaping glas… [+4007 chars]
