Science

Never mind the big bang; in the beginning was the vacuum. The vacuum simmered with energy (variously called dark energy, vacuum energy, the inflation field, or the Higgs field). Like water in a pot, this high energy began to evaporate – bubbles formed.

Today at press conference at the Royal Ontario Museum Treasury Board President Tony Clement announced that MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) will begin building the OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter (OLA) for the 2016 mission.

On April 15, 2014, many early morning skywatchers were treated to total eclipse of the Moon as it passed through Earth’s shadow. But few were lucky enough to see both the red Moon and the Red Planet awash in a sky full of green aurora.

Researchers from Western University are excited at the possibility of finding an unusual meteorite or meteorites, as there could be more than one, that streaked over Southern Ontario Tuesday evening and landed somewhere between 5-7 kilometers north to northwest of St. Thomas, Ontario.

The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC) announced on Tuesday the 2014 Award recipients for three Award categories and the Ken Chilton Prize.

Western University’s Stanimir Metchev is the principal investigator of new findings on brown dwarfs which were presented at a news conference today at the 223rd annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington.

The Earthshine Astronomy and Space Science Organization plans to build and operate a state-of-the-art Planetarium and Space Discovery Centre to in Mississauga to serve the western Greater Toronto Area (GTA).

For the first time, a dramatic climate shift that has long fascinated scientists has been linked to the impact in Quebec of an asteroid or comet, Dartmouth researchers and their colleagues report in a new study funded by the National Science Foundation.