Space has a way of making scientists throw out their textbooks. Just when astronomers think they understand how the universe ...

Asteroids, comets, and clouds contain complex organic molecules that form in space and might have kickstarted life on Earth ...

A team of astronomers has discovered the largest and most distant water reservoir ever detected in the universe, surrounding a quasar more than 12 billion light-years away. The finding pushes the ...

A new project is collecting thousands of messages destined for the cosmos, coinciding with the anniversary of a landmark ...

New results from an international team including UBC astrophysicists highlight the first black hole observed to be spinning ...

Searching for clues in the Epoch of Reionization, scientists discovered that the universe was quite a bit warmer before the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has looked back into deep time to find “rubies” or “little red dots” stretched across the universe.

In an astonishing feat of gravitational sleuthing, astronomers have found a mysterious, dense blob of invisible matter ...

Another interesting consequence of relativity is that as time stretches out at high speeds, distances diminish. It’s hard to ...

A new imaging system could help us see deeper into the universe than ever before. The same powerful technology could also ...