Radio astronomy has a pollution problem. Satellites thousands of kilometers overhead, designed to broadcast communications or ...

The longest night of the year is nearing as we get closer to the first day of winter. Here's when to expect the season to ...

Greetings stargazers. Orion’s belt is making its annual return to our early evening sky. From east to west, the belt stars are Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka. These three blue giant stars form one of ...

This annual event marks the shortest day of the year, characterised by the fewest hours of daylight, and conversely, the ...

This year brought remarkable cosmic breakthroughs, and these are the most significant space discoveries that captured the ...

We’ve all noticed it. Nights are growing longer, furnaces are working harder, and in many places, snow is blanketing the land. No doubt about it: Winter ...

Every second, our planet is racing through space at tens of thousands of miles per hour, yet the air outside the window ...

Using images from the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb), an international research team including Western's Stanimir Metchev ...

An idea about the sun’s magnetic field called the terminator model could help predict dangerous space weather more accurately ...

As one might expect from a month full of long, dark nights, December is a highlight for those with a penchant for looking to ...