The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) is providing funding to research infrastructure projects at 32 post-secondary ...

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

A thick layer of haze around the ultra-low-density planet Kepler-51d likely obscures not only the strange planet's ...

The KM3NeT Collaboration, operating a partially built neutrino detector on the Mediterranean seafloor off the coast of Sicily, has recorded a cosmic neutrino with an estimated energy of about 220 PeV, ...

A study led by the University of Oxford has identified a new type of planet beyond our solar system—one that stores large amounts of sulfur deep within a permanent ocean of magma. The findings have ...

Superconductors are among the most puzzling materials in physics. They conduct electricity with zero resistance, but only under specific conditions that researchers have struggled for decades to ...

What would you do if you woke up on a spaceship light-years from Earth without knowing why you’re there? Project Hail Mary opens in theaters March 20. Ahead of the film’s release, Astronomy spoke with ...

Curiosity-driven research has long sparked technological transformations. A century ago, curiosity about atoms led to quantum mechanics, and eventually the transistor at the heart of modern computing.

Researchers have identified a potential mechanism that explains how turbulent plasma can produce the vast, ordered magnetic fields observed across the universe Cosmic magnetic fields are everywhere, ...

University of Louisville has decided to permanently close its planetarium, a campus facility that has not been used since the ...

Bangladesh has growing academic interest in astrophysics but lacks the infrastructure for observational research ...

Scientists analyzing a gravitational-wave signal have discovered that a neutron star and black hole spiraled together on an oval-shaped orbit just before merging. This unusual motion, detected in the ...