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

A team of astronomers has discovered the largest and most distant water reservoir ever detected in the universe, surrounding ...

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

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 ...

A 3.5-gallon volume of deep space, specifically within the Milky Way's Orion-Cygnus Arm, would contain approximately 4 million neutrinos and about 13,000 gas atoms, predominantly hydrogen and helium.

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

NASA scientists have detected traces of water on the mysterious interstellar object 3I/Atlas, sparking new discussions about the possibility of life elsewhere in the universe.

In a world that often measures itself in days, years, decades and centuries, a second seems insignificant. But a lot can happen in an instant. It takes a lightning bolt just 30 microseconds to strike ...