NASA is skipping next week's launch attempt of its new moon rocket because of a tropical storm that's expected to become a major...

On Monday, in what seems like a scene out of a science fiction movie, NASA will slam a spacecraft into a distant asteroid to see whether it can nudge its orbit — all in an effort to test a way to protect Earth from any potential future...

When an octopus entangles its prey in its powerful, swirling mass of tentacles, it may look to the untrained eye like chaos. But, in fact, it’s a highly choreographed...

A new book, "The Milky Way: An Autobiography of our Galaxy," by astrophysicist Moiya McTier, imagines our galaxy using its own voice to spill the beans on topics like how it came to be, what it really thinks of us humans, its complicated relationships with other galaxies — and how it will likely meet its...

Bob McDonald's blog: Neptune's faint, dark rings are almost impossible to see using Earth-based telescopes. The best view we've had of them was from the 1989 Voyager 2 flyby. Now the James Webb telescope has produced a beautiful new...

In their quest for food, animals venture into human environments to access one of the richest urban food sources: garbage. Two new studies published this month detail how cockatoos and raccoons, two notorious trash bandits, are using their smarts to overcome human obstacles and fill their...

A new study estimates there are 20 quadrillion ants on the planet. That's 20 thousand million millions, or 20,000,000,000,000,000 with 16 zeroes. And it's likely an...

Emergency management officials held a news conference on Hurricane Fiona on Wednesday. They urged residents to prepare early for the...

When Prakrit Jain and Harper Forbes first saw the picture of an unidentified scorpion in the California desert, they knew they were looking at something...

Over the past few weeks, researchers have been working to track and understand what effect climate change is having on seaweed along the coastal waters of Canada's Western Arctic. They also hoped to map and study the ecology of Arctic kelp forests in the...

Seven young people who brought a landmark lawsuit against the Ontario government, alleging its climate plan fails to protect them and future generations, were heard in court this week, in a legal first for...

Millions of people are on the move today, in the biggest forced displacement since the Second World War. And unlike in decades past, new technologies are changing the narratives of their movement — both by reinforcing and extending borders, and acting as a lifeline for those trying to cross...

Bob McDonald's blog: This summer I ventured into the land of ice at the top of the world. I wandered among towering icebergs, and came face to face with calving...

What do the sex lives of constipated scorpions, a life-size rubber moose and complex legal documents have in common? They all inspired the winners of this year's Ig Nobels, the international prize for comical scientific...

From galaxies, nebulas, our sun and more, this year's winners in the Royal Observatory Greenwich’s Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition are...

Mars rover Opportunity may look like any other robot, but as new documentary Good Night Oppy shows, the 'lovable' creature was more than just a vessel to its NASA family and space enthusiasts around the...

When Bryan Adams opened his North American tour on P.E.I. on Aug. 31, people behind the scenes were attempting another first that he didn’t know...

The release of a multi-agency scientific report, led by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), warns that the world is "going in the wrong direction" on climate...

Biologists working off New Brunswick have been seeing a lot lately of a shark species that is rarely seen in the Bay of Fundy's...

Some 1,300 light-years from Earth lies a stunning area of dust and gas called the Orion Nebula. On Monday, teams of astronomers from around the world released the most detailed image ever of this rich star-forming region taken by the James Webb Space Telescope...

A Blue Origin rocket veered off course over West Texas about a minute after liftoff. The capsule's launch abort system immediately kicked in, lifting the craft off the top. Several minutes later, the capsule parachuted onto the remote desert...

The creators of the Bio-Brick said their invention is just as sturdy as a brick made using traditional masonry...

London, Ont., has become a hub for monitoring of chimney swifts and efforts to protect the threatened bird species, thanks to the work of volunteers with an organization that works to preserve...

Bob McDonald's blog: NASA's giant rocket program, plagued by delays and cost overruns, may finally launch, just as a private competitor might be ready to do it faster and cheaper. But does what looks like a boondoggle have hidden...