Sirius is a blue giant, which burns through its fuel quickly and lives only a relatively short period of time. Yet it has a ...

A star seen streaking across the cosmos was probably flung by the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way 1. Unlike most ...

Preliminary results of a study presented at the recent European Geosciences Union General Assembly in Vienna indicate that ...

Astronomers tracked a powerful solar eruption that rose like a coronal mass ejection before collapsing back onto the Sun. The observations show how magnetic reconnection and strong surrounding fields ...

A decade ago, we spotted an exoplanet that could be the most habitable world yet discovered. Now we're about to find out if ...

Backed by an $11.3-million federal grant, Canadian scientists led by teams at UdeM and the University of British Columbia are helping design the ANDES instrument for the European Extremely ...

PAEDO “cyber-gropers” are exploiting virtual reality games to prey on children – with some even reporting rape in the ...

Faith Hawthorn had a problem most astronomers would envy. NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, known as TESS, had ...

Science fiction has increased exponentially in the last 25 years but these literary masterpieces are already considered ...

"Project Hail Mary" is sci-fi storytelling at its best: solid science, an everyman hero, and a funny little alien ...

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered a rare world unlike anything in our solar system — a giant planet about the size of Saturn with surprisingly Earth-like temperatures ...