The Yukon government's paleontologist is calling a frozen baby woolly mammoth found this week near Dawson City the 'most important discovery in paleontology in North...

You're in the mood for fish and your server suggests a dish of invasive carp. 'Ugh,' you might say. But how about broiled copi, fresh from the Mississippi...

Yukon paleontologist Grant Zazula and his team have already found the shoulder blade of a woolly mammoth, a complete tusk, some leg bones, a steppe bison, some horses and some...

If you’re a morning person, there’s a treat in the sky before sunrise: five of the sky’s brightest planets all lined up among the...

While Canada produces many talented astronomers, astrophysicists and physicists, few of them are Black. The question is:...

Saharnaz Safari and Sohrab Haghighat, spoke to CBC News about their company SpaceRyde alongside Chris Hadfield, the first Canadian astronaut to live aboard the International Space Station. Their goal: to make history as the first orbital rocket to launch from a...

Fog can be predicted only a few hours in advance, if at all, because it's not well understood what causes it. A new study aims to change...

The world's largest recorded freshwater fish, a giant stingray, has been caught in the Mekong River in Cambodia, according to scientists from the Southeast Asian nation and the United...

Ray St-Laurent owns an electric car. And an electric lawnmower. And an electric snowblower. “Whatever is new and neat” tends to get the retired mechanical engineer's...

Bob McDonald's blog: The moth's wings can absorb up to 87% of incoming sound, a handy trait when being hunted by a...

Canada's nuclear waste agency says someone posing as an Indigenous chief convinced agency officials to put nearly $300,00 into a private bank account, money that was meant for a community development on a First Nation in...

In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we examine the growth of 'garden suites' in urban areas and a trio of lethal lakes in central Africa.

A Canadian company that uses satellites to spot sources of methane emissions around the globe said Wednesday that it detected one of the largest artificial releases of the potent greenhouse gas ever seen, coming from a coal mine in Russia earlier this...

SpaceX cleared a key hurdle Monday for its plan to launch a gigantic, futuristic rocketship into orbit from...

More than 10,000 visitors were ordered out of Yellowstone as unprecedented flooding tore through the northern half of the nation's oldest national...

The European Space Agency has released a trove of data on almost 2 billion stars in the Milky Way, collected by its Gaia mission in an effort to create the most accurate and complete map of our...

It's spawning season for the vampire-like sea lamprey. That means they're heading back to New Brunswick waterways to reproduce and...

Students with the Dalhousie Space Systems Lab have constructed the first satellite made in Nova Scotia and it will soon be launched into space — an Atlantic Canadian...

Bob McDonald's blog: Swedish study finds hydrofoil technology could reduce consumption of fossil fuels used in ships by no less than 80 per...

A tiny meteoroid struck the newly deployed James Webb Space Telescope in May, knocking one of its gold-plated mirrors out of alignment but not changing the orbiting observatory's schedule to become fully operational shortly, NASA said on...

A wildlife refuge in northern B.C. says rising fuel costs are threatening the rescue of orphaned bear cubs and the return of yearling bears to their native ranges across the...

A high streamflow advisory has been issued for several British Columbia communities along the Lower Fraser River due to increasing snowmelt and wet...

Mountain snowmelt in BC, Yukon and the Northwest Territories is contributing to high water levels and flow in the Liard and South Nahanni Rivers. The N.W.T. government is warning Fort Liard and Nahanni Butte to be on alert for possible...

An area nearly four times the size of Cape Breton off Nova Scotia was declared a marine refuge by Canada on World Oceans...