Simon Smith, a PhD student at UVic and Nanaimo Astronomy Society’s next guest speaker, specializes in finding extremely tiny, ...

A conception of the James Webb Space Telescope orbiting 1 million miles from Earth. Credit: NASA GSFC / CIL / Adriana Manrique Gutierrez Space is phantasmagorical. Astronomers using the powerful ...

The Lyrid meteor shower peaks early this week beginning Sunday evening and continues for three nights. The best viewing is ...

Scientists have found the best ever hint of alien life on another planet. But they aren’t getting entirely excited just yet.

The two gases were found in an alien planet's atmosphere that on Earth are produced only by biological processes ...

A distant galaxy that lay quiet for decades has suddenly stirred, lighting up in dramatic bursts that have caught astronomers ...

A new trail in this southern Arizona city plots the most visitor-friendly astronomy stops—and there are plenty to choose from, including world-class observatories and six Dark Sky parks.

The black hole at the heart of galaxy SDSS1335+0728, located 300 million light-years away, was quiet for decades as it ...

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Now, though, researchers are close to finally starting up a powerful astronomical facility ... Brown says he couldn't have asked for a better telescope to hunt his celestial quarry. "If you were to ...