To celebrate the 50th anniversary of CBC’s Quirks & Quarks, host Bob McDonald gathered six of Canada’s top scientists to ...

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Some things we see in space appear to outpace light. Now we are learning to harness these bizarre optical illusions to ...

On the night of Oct. 5, 1923, Edwin Hubble observed a strange star that flickered in intensity at regular intervals. The star ...

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The Mauve telescope, developed by London-headquartered start-up Blue Skies Space, is the size of a small suitcase and carries ...

In May 2019, astronomers picked up something strange in the fabric of spacetime. The LIGO and Virgo detectors recorded a gravitational wave that lasted just one-tenth of a second. The signal, known as ...

Scientists at Rutgers and collaborators have traced the invisible dark matter scaffolding of the universe using over 100,000 Lyman-alpha emitting galaxies. By studying how these galaxies clustered ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has begun its decade-long survey to scan the entire night sky every three days. To do this, it ...

A space professor who helped design a groundbreaking satellite has said it will "profoundly change our understanding of the universe". The Euclid satellite, launched by Elon Musk's Space X company, ...

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