UBC researchers have helped uncover 15,000 new potential strong gravitational lenses—the largest collection of these cosmic ...

Tsunamis triggered by volcanic eruptions are poorly understood because of the complex dynamics governing how falling rocks ...

When a cloud of atoms is cooled close to absolute zero, its atoms can merge into a Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC): an exotic ...

Global temperatures may continue to rise even after human CO₂ emissions stop. The temperature change that follows is known as ...

An international team of paleontologists, including researchers from McGill University, has discovered "remarkably large" ...

For a decade, the 1.5C goal has served as the north star of climate action, a line nations pledged to hold to avoid the worst ...

SpaceX's Starship made a triumphant return to Earth on Saturday, caught in midair by giant mechanical arms where its journey ...

Astronomers have revealed three dense cores at different evolutionary stages within the massive star-forming region G40.282−0 ...

Indigenous farmer Banu Ismahasan walks through a golden field of tall stalks in southeastern Taiwan, harvesting by hand the ...

A recent reanalysis of the outsize black hole galaxy UHZ1 using existing X-ray data and new infrared observations challenges ...

Collaboration revealed the first picture of a black hole. The object is at the center of a galaxy known as M87, about 55 ...

Since 2022, astronomers have been puzzling over a new kind of cosmic object called long-period radio transients. These are ...