Science

Today on Science Weekend we’re featuring a video from the educational Astro at Home series about growing food in extreme environments, including growing food on Mars.

The ship tracking ESAIL satellite is one of 53 satellites that will be launched next week on an Arianespace Vega mission.

So you want to build a rocket engine. Great, how do you prove that your design will work? On the rocket engine test stand of course.

This past week the Atlantic Council’s GeoTech Center held a live online event to discuss the future of data and artificial intelligence in space.

It was close, ok not like in the movie armageddon, but Asteroid 1998 OR2 came within several million kilometres of Earth and NASA says there’s “no possibility of impact for at least the next 200 years.”

Venus, our “sister” planet, is Earth sized with an atmosphere that some scientists say has been overlooked as we explore the solar system to learn more about Earth.

On April 24, 1990 the Space Shuttle Discovery launched with a crew of five astronauts whose primary mission on STS-31 was the deployment of the Hubble Space Telescope.

Happy Earth Day. On this day to celebrate our incredible planet we have messages and videos from the Prime Minister, the European Space Agency and NASA.

The Canadian Space Agency has funded eight new health studies to be conducted on the International Space Station.

Sara Seager is very smart, just ask the folks at the MacArthur Foundation who gave her one of their prestigious ‘genius’ grants in 2013.