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

NASA’s Artemis II mission is only the tip of the space agency’s lunar-exploration spear: planning for a plethora of ...

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.

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" ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has started releasing its first discoveries: including supernovae, variable stars and asteroids, which will from now on be discovered at an astonishing rate as it begins ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory sent scientists nearly 1 million astronomy alerts in one night, showing off changes in the sky. Eventually, the telescope is expected to reach 7 million alerts per night.

A recent SpaceNews opinion article argued that it is time to “take astronomy off Earth.” The suggestion is straightforward: If satellite constellations and commercial space activity threaten ...

Abstract: Future ground and space astronomy experiments will require large arrays of sensitive detectors in the submillimeter and millimeter ranges. Superconducting Transition Edge Sensors (TES) are ...

Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through science decades later. Gregor Mendel, Austrian botanist and founder of ...

I am a high-energy particle physicist who studies the fundamental building blocks of matter and the forces that govern their interactions. My work aims to answer some of the biggest open questions in ...

WASHINGTON — The defense bill that President Donald Trump signed into law puts an end to many military experiments on cats and dogs and declares a ceasefire to shooting animals in “trauma” exercises.