We Need a Rapid Asteroid Response Mission

Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) are rocky bodies orbiting our Solar System that pass relatively close to Earth’s…

Half the Stellar Mass in the Universe Formed During Cosmic Noon

About 380,000 years after the Big Bang, the first atoms formed. The first light of what…

What Perseverance’s latest findings tell us about the Red Planet’s past

A recent publication in Science Advances, featuring contributions from Mariek E. Schmidt from Brock University and…

Catch a Rare Lunar-Planetary Grouping Friday Morning

Early risers on April 25th might see a rare quadruple bunching of the Moon and planets…

The World’s Largest Telescope is Coming Together

The telescope was invented in the Netherlands around 1608, when Hans Lippershey, a German-Dutch spectacle maker,…

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captures images of asteroid Donaldjohanson during flyby

On April 20, 2025, at 13:51 EDT (17:51 UTC), NASA’s Lucy spacecraft conducted a flyby of…

A Novel Concept for a Multiplanetary Crewed Mission to Mars and Ceres

For NASA, sending a crewed mission to Mars has been the long-term goal for over two…

However Life Got Started on Earth, it Didn’t Take Long

At some early point in Earth’s history, a collection of increasingly complex chemicals performed a new…

This Distant Exoplanet is Melting Away and Leaving a Comet-like Tail

If we need more evidence that our Solar System is not representative of other solar systems,…

Dazzling Pictures Celebrate Hubble Space Telescope’s 35 Years in Orbit

This week brings the Hubble Space Telescope’s 35th birthday — but instead of getting presents, the…