Ivo Labbé helped discover odd dead galaxies.

Associate Professor Ivo Labbé is hunting dead galaxies from the dawn of time. These cosmic relics passed their active...

A distant galaxy is making stars at a truly astronomical rate.

A gigantic galaxy 12.4 billion light years from Earth is forming stars at 1000 times the rate of the Milky Way and is...

Will we ever discover extraterrestrial life, and, if so, what form will it take? Six experts give...

1: Brian Cox: purple slime Cox suggests that life in the universe is likely abundant. Intelligent life, however, i...

An astronomer answers common questions about a solar eclipse.

Editor’s note: A total solar eclipse will be visible across the U.S. on Monday, August 21. Shannon Schmoll, director ...

The Solar System is huge – it extends way past Pluto into light-year territory. So if a planet or...

A mysterious planet in the far reaches of the Solar System is probably 10 times as massive as Earth and aglow with in...

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution enhanced colour view of Pluto that combines blue, red an...

Quite a sight from 1 million miles away.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMdhQsHbWTs&feature=emb_title The DSCOVR project, the deep space climate observat...