People without air conditioning don’t have to swelter without relief in the Okanaganѻý current heatwave, Interior Health says.
In the Jodie Foster movie “Contact”, the action begins when the Very Large Array—a major radio telescope in the United States—detects an alien…
In 2007 astronomers discovered a strange event in data obtained using the 63m radio telescope at Parkes, Australia. It was a pulse of cosmic r…
Black holes are good candidates for being the weirdest things in nature. There are lots of them out there; some of them are the remains of gia…
The sight of a display of aurora borealis against the stars, over a quiet lake surrounded by forested hills is about as Canadian as it gets.
We put optical observatories on tops of high mountains to get them above the clouds and away from our light pollution.
Seeing the launch of a coronal mass ejection (CME) from the surface of the Sun is an awe-inspiring experience. The story starts with a huge lo…
MONTREAL - There's no doubt the weather across much of Eastern Canada this week is very, very hot. But is the region experiencing a heat wave …
If you ever see a radio astronomer wearing headphones, he or she is probably listening to music while overseeing the computer controlling the …
In the year 1054, observers around the world noticed a new star in the sky.