Measuring the mass of W bosons took 10 years and the result was not what physicists expected. You can do it quickly, you can do it cheaply, or you can do it right. We did it right. These were some o… [+8039 chars]
Artists concept of the Parker Solar Probe spacecraft approaching the Sun. Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Is human exploration beyond low-Earth orbit a thing of the past? Will … [+5036 chars]
British Columbians can expect to see more northern lights dancing in the skies over the next three years. Bill Murtagh, a space weather forecaster with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administr… [+3398 chars]
Could SpaceX be heading to Uranus next? The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine seems to think it should. The organization has released its latest decadal survey of planetary sc… [+1810 chars]
It would surely be inaccurate to say Nanaimo Astronomy Society’s next guest speaker has rocks in his head, but they are certainly foremost on his mind, especially rocks from Mars. Chris Herd is an E… [+4200 chars]
The sun unleashed a massive solar flare on Wednesday, which has the potential to impact satellite communications and global positioning systems, the Centre of Excellence in Space Sciences India (CESS… [+1515 chars]
These four galaxies are part of a large survey of more than 100 galaxies conducted by Chandra that looked for evidence of growing black holes. A new study uncovered evidence that stellar-mass black h… [+5433 chars]
A newly-discovered kind of stellar explosion could be commonplace in the universe and may change our understanding of how eruptions in stars occur, astronomers have suggested.A micronova is a blast t… [+2483 chars]
Typically, when we talk about NASA, we envision a journey beyond the stars -- but NASA has new projects just for planet Earth. The new projects collected data about our home planet, which is reporte… [+329 chars]
