A look at the enduring mystery of the ‘Star of Bethlehem’, exploring whether Jupiter, rare planetary alignments, comets or supernovae could explain the celestial event that has fascinated astronomers ...

In 1907, a wealthy Massachusetts astronomer managed to convince much of the country there was proof of life on Mars. Science ...

Cosmic dawn galaxies seen by JWST reveal hidden clues about dark matter and keep rival theories about its true nature alive.

The search for the biblical Star of Bethlehem has long hovered between faith and astronomy, but a new claim from a NASA comet ...

Astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS, and the Trottier Institute for Research on Exoplanets (IREx) at the University of Montreal ...

Thanks to the space telescope, a team of astronomers detected with unprecedented precision two helium tails escaping from the exoplanet WASP-121b. This artistic ...

NASA’s Fermi telescope detected a record-breaking gamma-ray burst lasting nearly seven hours. The unusual, multi-pulse ...

As the third rock from the sun approaches its shortest night of the year (at least in the Northern Hemisphere), Minnesotans ...

This January, the Faculty is also launching a portfolio dedicated to graduate and postdoctoral studies, headed by UBC ...

An international team of astronomers, led by SRON, discovered a rapid explosion of matter around the supermassive black hole ...

The billionaire businessman Elon Musk has once again caused a stir on the internet following a recent interview in which he ...

For over two decades, cosmologists have believed that the universe is expanding at an accelerating pace, driven by a mysterious force called dark energy. This assumption has shaped modern theories of ...