Bob’s Blog: NASA’s latest mission, designed to study the effects of the solar wind on the atmosphere of Mars, was ironically delayed on the launch pad due to a solar storm affecting conditions here on Earth.

The giant New Glenn rocket from Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin launched from Florida on its debut mission for paying customers on Thursday, sending two NASA satellites toward Mars while also nailing the landing of its reusable booster for the first time.

Solar storms brought colourful northern lights — a.k.a. aurora borealis — across much of Canada, the United States and parts of Europe for a second straight night on Wednesday.

Some scientists say this year's flu shot isn't well matched to a key strain that could spread widely in the months ahead. So, is there still a point in getting it? Medical experts say: absolutely. Here’s why.

Solar storms brought colourful auroras to unexpected southern places in Canada and the United States on Tuesday night — and there could be more to come.

A P.E.I. company is seeking approval to import disease-resistant oyster seed and broodstock from the United States. Some Island oyster growers support the idea, but many in the wild oyster industry do not.

Canadian astronomical research is getting a big boost with the return of Sara Seager to Canada after around 20 years at MIT. Her research includes looking for life in the clouds of Venus and searching for Earth 2.0.

Skygazers are spotting the lights deeper into Canada, the U.S. and Europe because the sun is going through a major facelift. Every 11 years, its poles swap places, causing magnetic twists and tangles along the way.

Caitlin Birdsall, executive director of the Marine Education and Research Society, says the whale discovered Nov. 8 off Lasqueti Island in the Georgia Strait near the Sunshine Coast and is the third confirmed death since late September. 

Two ancient stone spheres were returned to their home at Kettle and Stony Point First Nation on the shores of Lake Huron last Tuesday.

The illegal wildlife trade is deeply connected to other forms of organized crime, including arms dealing, drug trafficking and human smuggling, a new study has found.

Goats in the City arrived at the Flamborough home last week with a trailer of goats ready to bleat around the bush. 

The research adds to a growing body of evidence that the chemicals are making their way into the environment with detrimental results.

James D. Watson, the brilliant but controversial American biologist whose 1953 discovery of the structure of DNA, the molecule of heredity, ushered in the age of genetics and provided the foundation for the biotechnology revolution of the late 20th century, has died at the age of 97.

A tremendous effort is underway at NASA to send humans to Mars and return astronauts to the moon, including the flight  of Canadian Jeremy Hanson on Artemis II early next year. Meanwhile, every other research program at the space agency is facing cuts. The US administration has  proposed a 24 per cent cut  to NASA’s budget, which would make it the smallest NASA budget since before human spaceflight programs began in 1961.

Keep your fingers crossed for clear skies: the U.S. Space Weather Prediction Center is calling for a strong geomagnetic storm, which could produce the northern lights across much of Canada and into the U.S.

Dalhousie University researchers found an average of six to seven microplastic particles per gram of meat.

The odds of healthy quadruplet calves are estimated at one in 11 million. Maybe that's why Abram Knelsen, a Ruthven, Ont., farmer, is still marveling that his female Black Angus cow birthed four sprightly offspring in one pregnancy.

In October and November, Atlantic salmon return from their ocean feeding grounds to the rivers where they were born, looking for an ideal place to spawn. But in Nova Scotia, the ongoing drought is threatening some fish as they attempt to complete an important step in their life cycle.

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first budget proposes providing more than $1 billion over the next five years to build up Canada’s artificial intelligence and quantum computing ecosystems while embedding AI technology more deeply in federal government operations.