The Canadian Space Commerce Association (CSCA) on August 4th called on all the federal parties taking part in the election to commit to a long-term space plan by the end of 2016. Both the NDP and the Liberals have publicly committed to a long-term space plan, though with no fixed date set.

In late July, Thoth Technology Inc. issued a press release announcing it had been granted a patent for a “Space Elevator”. It was not a Space Elevator in the traditional sense, but rather a tall structure with an elevator that could, if built, reach 20 kilometres at first, and perhaps eventually 200 kilometres. What’s intriguing about this concept is the incremental approach to solving an …

The University of Toronto recently hosted the 2015 Field and Service Robotics conference. The conference held very two years brings together researchers and engineers from around the world to discuss robotics.

We’ve all seen pictures of the moon and Mars. But did you know that Canada’s Arctic contains regions that look almost identical to the surface of the moon and Mars?

This third day of the Perimeter Institute’s Convergence conference included a talk by Peter Olver and Ruth Gregory who explored the mathematical legacy of Emmy Noether and a Physics and the Future panel with Ian O’Neill, Immanuel Bloch, Sara Seager, Stefania Gori, Patrick Brady.

This second day of the Perimeter Institute’s Convergence conference included a talk by Sara Seager on Extrasolar Planets and the Search for Habitable Worlds and evening lecture by Jürgen Renn on the Genesis and Renaissance of General Relativity.

This week the Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics in Waterloo is holding its first-ever alumni reunion with a new kind of physics conference providing a “big picture” overview of fundamental physics and its future. They’re calling it Convergence.

This past Friday the Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State (Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario) announced at the headquarters of COM DEV International that the government had selected 21 companies and 38 research and development projects to fund as part of the Canadian Space Agency’s (CSA) Space Technology Development Program (STDP).