Who is known as the Father of Modern Science? Meet Galileo Galilei, the genius behind telescope discoveries and physics laws.

The Curiosity rover conducted a first-of-its kind experiment on Mars, detecting organic molecules that have never been ...

Measurements of this interstellar comet’s molecular makeup show an excess of heavy water molecules that is dramatically ...

We have no idea what kind of life may exist on other planets, so it’s hard to know what to look for. Proxima Kósmos imagines ...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has completed its originally planned five-year mission, mapping more than 47 ...

A breakthrough experiment has shed new light on one of astrophysics’ biggest mysteries: the origin of rare proton-rich elements. For the first time, scientists directly measured a key reaction that ...

Scientists in Japan have developed a high-resolution X-ray telescope sharp enough to distinguish an object just 3.5 mm wide ...

NASA’s Artemis II mission is set to launch and will carry a crew of four astronauts – including Canada’s Jeremy Hansen – around the moon for the first time in more than 50 years. Throughout the ...

Scientists can’t be everywhere all at once, as much as they’d like to. Many of the problems citizen science helps solve are concerned with spreading the net wider – or getting more helping hands on ...

Researchers at Waterloo have developed a novel approach to understanding how the universe originated, which could reshape current knowledge of the Big Bang and the earliest stages of cosmic history.

When the Nobel Prize in Physics was announced in Stockholm in October 2013, the world was watching. Among the names read out was Prof Peter Higgs, the British theorist who, nearly half a century ...

A powerful "gamma-ray burst" has been seen exploding from merging neutron stars hidden within a previously unknown mini-galaxy leftover from an ancient cosmic crash. The "collision within a collision" ...