The James Webb Space Telescope has taken a stunning image of Uranus that showcases 11 of the planet’s 13 rings. Made of rocks and dust that don’t reflect much sunlight, Uranus’ ri…
How did the Andes—the world's longest mountain range—reach its enormous size? This is just one of the geological questions that a new method developed by researchers at the University of Copenhagen may be able to answer. With unprecedented precision, the meth…
A newly-appointed top NASA officer Makenzie Lystrup swore an unconventional oath to take charge of her tasks.Rather than swearing an oath on the Bible, Makenzie Lystrup took her oath on a copy of...
A museum in Maine is offering $25,000 USD for a chunk of a meteor that fell in either Maine or New Brunswick last weekend.Subscribe to CTV News to watch more...
The universe began about 14 billion years ago with a single point that contained a vast array of fundamental particles, according to the prevailing theory known as the Big Bang. Under the pressure of extreme heat and energy, the point inflated and then expand…
A three-day weekend is good for our health, a new study reports. An extra day of rest improves sleep duration, increases physical activity and was associated with overall healthier behaviors.
Cornell University scientists have turned to an old electrochemical equation from 1903 to help manage atmospheric CO2 and convert it into useful products.
An international team of over 160 astronomers used the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) to shed new light on the invisible dark matter accounting for around 85 percent...
Data from ESA’s star-mapping Gaia spacecraft has allowed astronomers to image a gigantic exoplanet using Japan's Subaru Telescope. This world is the first confirmed exoplanet found by Gaia’s ability to sense the gravitational tug or ‘wobble’ a planet induces …
Two 52 million-year-old bat skeletons discovered in an ancient lake bed are the oldest bat fossils ever found, and they reveal a new species of flying mammal.
Contrary to the idea that apes evolved their upright posture to reach for fruit in the forest canopy, the earliest known ape with this stature, Morotopithecus, lived in more open grassy environments.
Anthropologists have long thought that our ape ancestors evolved an upright torso in order to pick fruit in forests, but new research from the University of Michigan suggests a life in open woodlands and a diet that included leaves drove apes' upright stature.
Using first-of-their-kind observations from the James Webb Space Telescope, a University of Minnesota Twin Cities-led team looked more than 13 billion years into the past to discover a unique, minuscule galaxy that generated new stars at an extremely high rat…