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.

A comet is hurtling into our solar system from interstellar space at about 152,000 miles per hour. The comet, named 3I/ATLAS, was discovered by the ...

It ultimately was successful, with NASA correctly predicting that it is possible to redirect celestial objects. The asteroid known as Dimorphos was approximately the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza, ...

"The impact could pose some danger to equipment or astronauts on the moon, and certainly to satellites and other Earth-orbiting platforms, which are above our atmosphere." ...