Astronomers used RR Lyrae stars to trace the early Milky Way, revealing a rapid formation of its halo and disk, with chemical patterns similar to Andromeda.

It’s the only total lunar eclipse this year, and the next time one will be visible in Alberta won’t be until June 25, 2029.

Today, the moon doesn't have a magnetic field at all. But some rocks — notably, many samples returned from NASA's Apollo ...

Stargazers and astronomy fans will be treated to an early-morning spectacle Tuesday, when a rare total lunar eclipse — also called a blood moon — appears in the pre-dawn skies over Edmonton.

Safety tips for the Solar Eclipse. Courtesy of Celestron ...

A newly discovered jellyfish galaxy, seen as it existed 8.5 billion years ago, is challenging assumptions about conditions in the early universe. Astrophysicists at the University of Waterloo have ide ...

Astronomers have spotted what may be one of the universe’s earliest barred spiral galaxies — a striking cosmic structure forming just 2 billion years after the Big Bang. The galaxy, COSMOS-74706, ...

When the venerable Hubble Space Telescope made its Deep Fields studies of the early Universe, it discovered something that would puzzle astronomers to this day. When the Universe was just a few ...

A newly detected X-ray transient may reveal the first direct evidence of an intermediate-mass black hole consuming a white dwarf. A newly observed cosmic outburst is giving astronomers a rare glimpse ...

How did the construction of the Subaru Telescope transform Japanese astronomy? A new study provides a quantitative answer by analyzing scientific publications and their citation impact during the ...

The discovery made by a large research team challenges the existing models of the universe.