The local universe may be expanding more slowly than previously thought, a discovery that could relieve a pesky discrepancy ...

Extreme exomoons with tidal heating and thick, hydrogen-rich atmospheres may be able to create billions of years of potentially habitable surface conditions.

The night sky appears perfectly still, but the universe is constantly changing in ways the human eye cannot see. By combining ...

Learn how Hubble is measuring the expansion rate of the Universe in this new explainer from NASA's Goddard Space Flight ...

Science in the modern era is increasingly reliant on enormous datasets and automated analysis. In astronomy, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST)—a ten-year survey ...

The Wilderness Center will host a free "Astronomy Day" on March 21 featuring speakers and planetarium shows.

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors—a small, gas-rich galaxy visible to the ...

Quantum materials, astronomy, and life sciences research at UBC got a major boost with the latest round of Canada Foundation for Innovation Award Funding.

Astronomers using MeerKAT have detected the most distant and powerful "cosmic laser" ever observed, offering new insights into galaxy mergers and the early Universe.

Still in its original galaxy, a rare holdout from the second generation of stars sheds new light on the origins of the elements—and how massive supernovae reshaped the cosmos ...

A rare star reveals how the Universe's first stars exploded, helping explain the Milky Way’s outer halo and its unusual chemistry.

A new data release more than doubles the number of gravitational-wave candidate events—and reveals unexpected complexities of merging black holes ...