A crescent moon will appear alongside the bright stars Castor and Pollox to form a lopsided grin in the night sky on May 29.

We are proud to announce the launch of our Summer Science Series! Starting in April, DRAO scientists and staff will give talks on astronomy and science. Each session will be 45 minutes followed by a ...

Ohio University is ranked among the Best Global Universities by U.S. News & World Report, with its physics program among the best in the world. Students explore yesterday, today and tomorrow in search ...

X2.7-class eruption from sunspot AR4087 disrupts radio signals as the active region rotates toward Earth, raising the risk of more flares ahead. The sun roared to life early Tuesday (May 14 ...

He's the author of "The Contact Paradox: Challenging Our Assumptions in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence" (Bloomsbury Sigma, 2020) and has written articles on astronomy, space ...

There wasn't a lot of gold and it didn't last long, but the results are still impressive. For centuries, alchemists dreamed of turning lead into gold — not through magic, but by unlocking the ...

A new memorandum has firmed up China and Russia's intent to lead the construction of a new lunar base to be completed by 2036, as NASA talks about scaling back its own lunar ambitions.

"It was a reminder that our sun is capable of producing these very disruptive events that can impact our critical infrastructure." I'll never forget the night of May 10, 2024. I remember having ...

"I think this discovery will motivate scientists to look for more examples of this type of event," Yuhan Yao, a postdoctoral fellow in the department of astronomy at the University of California ...

Europa lies to the west, beyond this field of view. Credit: Astronomy: Roen Kelly The gas giant Jupiter still dominates the constellation Taurus as it sets in the west after sunset. Jupiter now ...

During the height of the Cold War in the 1960s and 1970s, the USSR launched 29 spacecraft towards Venus, the planet scientists call Earth’s “twin sister”. Three flew past Venus, and went ...

A sharp-eyed Earth-observing satellite has shared an updated view of the world’s largest iceberg, which remains stuck just offshore of a remote island in the South Atlantic. The drifting ...