An international research team has observed signs of rotation in a galaxy that existed only 500 million years after the Big Bang, easily the earliest galaxy ever observed that shows a signature of ro… [+2467 chars]
By firing lasers finer than a human hair at tiny grains of a mineral extracted from beach sand, Curtin researchers have found evidence of an almost four billion-year-old piece of the Earth's crust th… [+2867 chars]
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on Tuesday announced that it has lost contact with a $32.7 million Capstone spacecraft headed to the moon to test out a lopsided lunar orbit. … [+1884 chars]
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope team has released a new edition in the Hubble Focus e-book series, called "Hubble Focus: Strange New Worlds." This e-book highlights the mission's recent discoveries abo… [+5600 chars]
Recently, scientists have discovered a massive sunspot that is facing Earth that has doubled in size in the past few days and it might fire solar flares in our direction putting all communications an… [+1739 chars]
If an asteroid threat emerged, Earth would need to be ready. Scientists are continually working to give the planet the best range of defensive strategies. One day we might scan the skies and see it … [+6494 chars]
Astronomers have discovered an ultra-faint dwarf galaxy on the edges of Andromeda. Designated as Pegasus V, the dwarf galaxy is very poor in metals, which in astrophysics, are all elements heavier th… [+2604 chars]
In a university swimming pool, scientists and their underwater cameras watch carefully as a coiled shell is released from a pair of metal tongs. The shell begins to move under its own power, giving t… [+7595 chars]
The search for lifeeven ancient lifeon Mars is trickier than we thought. In a recent study published in the journal Astrobiology, researchers have determined that NASAs Mars Perseverance (Percy) Rove… [+4549 chars]
The international LHCb collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has observed three never-before-seen particles: a new kind of pentaquark and the first-ever pair of tetraquarks, which includes… [+4070 chars]
Nicholas Cowan. Credit: McGill University. Nicolas Cowan, Professor at McGill University and a member of both iREx and the McGill Space Institute, is one of the finalists for the Relève Scientifique… [+2041 chars]
The Royal Observatory Greenwich’s annual Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2022 competition has revealed this year’s shortlisted photos from all over the globe. Competition for the World’s Greatest… [+3320 chars]
