Canada is going to the moon, that was the message Prime Minister Trudeau announced almost 10 months ago. We now know another one of the companies that could make that announcement a reality.
Read More »The Excitement and Mysteries as we Hunt for Habitable Worlds
In our third and final SpaceQ podcast episode of our annual Winter Series, we’re featuring a live lecture from the Perimeter Institute with astrophysicist Elizabeth Tasker.
Read More »Podcast: Exciting First Results from the NASA Parker Solar Probe
In our second SpaceQ podcast episode of our annual Winter Series we’re featuring NASA’s teleconference with the first results from the Parker Solar Probe.
Read More »McGill University Awarded $500K LiteBIRD Telescope Study
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) had awarded a phase 0 development contract to McGill University for the proposed LiteBIRD telescope to validate a variety of objectives, including the concept definition and design.
Read More »Canadian Space Agency Funds New Space Station Health Studies
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) announced this week that it had awarded $2.2 million for three new health studies to be conducted on the International Space Station.
Read More »Take a Tour of Some Alien Worlds
Astrophysicist Elizabeth Tasker was a recent guest at the Perimeter Institute public lecture series where she took the audience on an entertaining tour of some alien worlds.
Read More »Thursday’s Alpha Monocerotid Meteor Shower Confounds Experts
This Thursday evening into Friday morning the annual Alpha Monocerotid meteor shower will be visible, but experts can’t agree on whether it will be spectacular or not.
Read More »An IAC 2019 Special Podcast – Searching for Life on Europa
Jupiter’s moon Europa appears to have a salt water ocean. This excites scientists at it opens up the possibility there may be life. The Europa Clipper mission will try to gather more evidence to substantiate the theory.
Read More »Western University Tries to Trace Origins of Interstellar Objects Visiting Our Solar System
Not content with just having Western alumni Robert Weryk discover the first known interstellar object passing through our solar system in 2017, researchers are trying to trace the origins of the two known interstellar objects.
Read More »Search for Life Beyond Earth Requires Flexibility in our Understanding
MONTREAL – As space technology improves to look for life beyond Earth, a panel of experts urged that humanity keep itself open about what we might find out there – an important point as a new generation of life-searchers (ranging from Mars 2020 to the James Webb Space Telescope) embark on their cosmic journeys in the early 2020s.
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