A new survey of distant galaxies undertaken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is revealing new secrets of the "cosmic noon"—when galaxies in the young universe underwent something of an awkward ...

A new study suggests the universe might be slowly rotating, completing a full revolution every 500 billion years. This subtle ...

Astronomers may have found the long-missing half of the universe's regular matter—and it appears to have been right under our ...

While it's much smaller than the largest supermassive black holes detected, it's still a whopper considering how early in the ...

Astronomers have long struggled with a troubling puzzle: a significant portion of normal matter in the universe appeared to ...

A new approach suggests that a tiny spin of the universe throughout space might reconcile those conflicting numbers. If the ...

Intriguingly, ultralight dark matter might be able to turn into photons (light) — and it's through this process that the ...

A new analysis of the sky has finally confirmed where the missing half of the Universe's visible matter has been hiding.

The discovery was made on a massive exoplanet known as K2-18b that for years has captivated scientists searching for life ...

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

A new study in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society by researchers including István Szapudi of the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy suggests the universe may rotate—just ...

Active since last week, the shower is formed from a comet’s debris and is forecast to produce the most fireballs overnight.