Education

This past week the Aldrin Family Foundation and NASA’s Office of Stem Engagement held a virtual fireside chat with the theme of the first residents of the Moon and Mars are today’s students.

Canadian astronaut Jenni Sidey-Gibbons spent some time on Thursday, May 7 doing a live online session to talk about the future of space exploration.

COVID-19 is leaving no aspect of our lives untouched including at universities where students and professors have had to adapt to our new reality.

During times of crisis we look to people in leadership roles for guidance, reassurance and information.

Millions of Canadians are now sheltering in place in their houses amid the Coronavirus pandemic, providing a challenge for kids (and adults) in finding things to do while waiting out the storm.

The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics held its annual Inspiring Future Women in Science conference on March 9 which included a panel discussion.

Western University is readying to deploy a vision system for future rover missions on the moon, building on to rover technology the Canadian Space Agency has been supporting for at least two decades.

Since space experiments are expensive, much of the testing for the final frontier takes place on airplanes simulating microgravity, or balloons that fly high in the stratosphere.

In this episode of Terranauts we feature Dr. Gordon Osinski, a professor at Western University and the director of the Institute for Earth and Space Exploration.

This afternoon Maritime Launch Services (MLS) and St. Francis Xavier University (StFX) will sign a Memo Of Understanding (MOU) that is the start of a new partnership and what both parties hope will be a long collaboration.