The Pacific Whale Watching Association says several of its members witnessed an extremely rare confrontation Thursday, when a pod of killer whales squared off with two humpbacks in the Juan de Fuca Strait east of...

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a prototype wireless, battery-free underwater camera that runs on sound...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has made the closest approach to Jupiter's tantalizing, icy moon Europa in more than 20...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has promised to take us back to a time when our universe was in its infancy. And it’s keeping its word. In a new paper published Thursday, a team of Canadian astronomers has found evidence of some of the oldest known...

The wind and waves were so powerful during the storm that the different layers of water in the ocean got mixed, heating up the deeper layers of ocean and cooling off the surface...

A NASA spacecraft slammed into an asteroid at blistering speed Monday in an unprecedented dress rehearsal for the day a killer rock menaces...

Hurricane Ian is prompting NASA to move its moon rocket off the launch pad and into shelter, adding weeks of delay to the lunar-orbiting test...

You may have noticed a bright "star" in the eastern sky after sunset, but that’s no star: it’s the mighty planet Jupiter, and it's almost at its peak...

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...