It is widely accepted that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate, but now researchers say our measurements of the ...

A remarkable new study challenges the findings of Nobel Prize winning research into how our universe has changed over time.

For several decades, evidence has suggested that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. Crucial to those estimates were the use of standard candles, celestial events of the same luminosity ...

The co-author of a new study assessing microplastics in lobsters says the research can serve as a warning that plastic ...

The only possibility left was an extraordinary one: a tidal disruption event, or TDE.

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government is proposing in the 2025 budget to follow through on a whopping investment to harness ...

Supernova remnants, stellar nurseries and more populate the new edge-on view of the Milky Way as seen from Earth’s southern hemisphere.

The most massive stars in the universe are destined to explode as brilliant supernova before collapsing into black holes. Yet ...

Is there anything more dramatic than an exploding star? More than just extraordinarily bright, energetic events that can ...

But most of the gold on Earth isn’t in our hands; it’s deep underground. During the planet’s formation, heavy elements like gold and platinum sank toward the molten iron core. Geologists estimate that ...

For 25 years, the ISS has orbited Earth, but few know how close it came to disaster. A gripping new doc breaks the silence.

For weeks leading into Halloween, and on Halloween itself, Acheson’s Park Street home in Yarmouth is transformed into a ...