The chance of someone being killed by space junk falling from the sky may seem ridiculously tiny. After all, nobody has yet died from such an...
If you close your eyes and imagine a system of planets orbiting a distant star, what do you see? For most people, such thoughts conjure up...
Something is happening to the sun. One of the regions of the solar atmosphere currently exhibiting sunspots caught the attention of observatories on July 11, when...
The COVID-19 pandemic has had an enormous impact on the global economy, with the total cost likely to exceed US$12.5 trillion dollars according to International Monetary...
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea The Y chromosome can be lost through the process of aging, and...
The ingredients for life are spread throughout the universe. While Earth is the only known place in the universe with life, detecting life beyond Earth is...
LONGUEUIL, Que. — NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, outfitted with two Canadian-built systems that help capture images, is already astounding the scientists who worked for years...
The average body contains about 37 trillion cells – and we are in the midst of a revolutionary quest to understand what they all do. Unravelling...
We can model the motions of planets in the Solar System quite accurately using Newton’s laws of physics. But in the early 1970s, scientists noticed that...
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson recently expressed concerns over China’s aims in space, and in particular, that China would, in some way, claim ownership over the Moon...