But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

Next week, the skies over Morgantown will be filled with balloons carrying tiny satellites aloft in a brand new summer camp ...

Q: I have some big goals in life. But sometimes I get almost overwhelmed by the scale of the things I want to accomplish. How ...

In A Nutshell New theoretical models predict “dark dwarfs” — objects powered by dark matter annihilation. These cosmic bodies would shine steadily near the galactic center for billions of years. They ...

As the summer sun beats down, are your once-vibrant hanging baskets starting to look a little tired and overgrown? Don’t ...

Satellite imagery has revealed a yet-to-be-explained rise in the Southern Ocean's salinity. It could be a key factor in the decline of the region's sea ice.

During a record-breaking flight through the sun’s corona in Dec. 2024, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured the closest-ever ...

Seven projects led by McMaster faculty and staff members are receiving grants for the creation and integration of free, high quality open textbooks and course . . .

Greetings, stargazers. Emission nebulae are the subject of many of the most spectacular astrophotographs published in the last decade. Although there are many subcategories of nebulae, they all ...

A mystery interstellar object discovered last week is likely to be the oldest comet ever seen – possibly predating our solar system by more than three billion years, researchers say. The "water ...

New research has revealed everything astronomers currently know about the mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has taken the closest images ever from the Sun, capturing eerie waves just 3.8 million miles from the solar surface. These photos show the Sun in a new light and can help ...