On the night of Tuesday, August 12, we reach the deepest, most concentrated part of that stream. This is when the Perseids ...

The Perseids are known for being especially swift and bright, and in a good year viewers can expect to spot between 50 and ...

Every summer, the night sky in the northern hemisphere lights up with one of the most eagerly awaited astronomical events: ...

A team of University of Calgary students is looking forward to sending the city's first student-built satellite to space ...

A 'prolific' meteor shower will dash across Toronto’s skies next week, but the moonlight could outshine how visible they will ...

The source of the shower is periodic comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle. Discovered by astronomers Lewis Swift and Horace Tuttle in July ...

Astronomers have identified an ultramassive black hole that could be the largest ever measured, hidden in a distant galaxy ...

Every August, humanity has a rendezvous with the cosmos. It is an ancient tradition, almost a rite of summer, to go out under the cover of night and wait for a "shooting star". The highest peak of the ...

Astronomers have found the strongest evidence yet of a giant planet in the "habitable zone" orbiting a star in the nearest solar system to our own Sun. The discovery was made using NASA's James Webb ...

Stargazers, get ready! The Perseid meteor shower, a celestial spectacle, peaks this week, gracing the night sky with ...

It may be the most massive black hole ever found. 36 billion times larger than the mass of our Sun, it was previously hidden ...

The newly discovered black hole lies in one of the largest galaxies ever observed, known as the Cosmic Horseshoe. This galaxy ...