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

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

A second deep space antenna opened in a tiny monastic town in Western Australia could help unlock the secrets of the universe.

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

Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ambitious missions to look down on ...