NASA announced yesterday that Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques will participate in his first spacewalk currently scheduled for April 8.
Read More »Canada’s Mars on Earth Featured in Google Earth, Street View and a New Documentary
The Haughton Crater on Devon Island in Canada’s high Arctic is home to the only known impact crater in a polar desert. This makes it an ideal analog for a Mars on Earth research station.
Read More »Chief Science Advisor States Better Coordination Needed in First Annual Report
The first annual report from Canada’s Chief Science Advisor, Dr. Mona Nemer, was published today and includes highlights such as developing a Model Policy on Scientific Integrity but notes there is still much more work to be done.
Read More »New Health in Space Exhibit Opens at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum
Health in Space: Daring to Explore is a new permanent exhibit opened last week at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum by astronaut David Saint-Jacques.
Read More »Royal Ontario Museum Hosts an Update on the OSIRIS-REx Mission
In the early evening of January 25 at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, a panel of experts provided an introduction, update and context of Canada’s participation in the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.
Read More »The Chime Telescope Does it Again
McGill University researchers announced yesterday that a Canadian-led team of scientists has found a second repeating fast radio burst (FRB).
Read More »The Canadian Space Agency is Setting the Stage for Deep Space Medical Contributions
It doesn’t matter what the name of any particular program is that will eventually see humans once again explore beyond low earth orbit, the stage is being set now as to who will be the leaders, and Canada is trying to define its role.
Read More »The Sounds of Mars
In the first of our three part Podcast Winter Series were featuring the sounds of Mars.
Read More »Let’s Talk Asteroids: Canadian Astronaut and a Senior Scientist Answer Your Questions
Canada is participating in the NASA led OSIRIS-REx mission to asteroid Bennu. In early December the spacecraft went into orbit around the asteroid. Why are we participating in this mission?
Read More »Asteroid Bennu is Everything the OSIRIS-REx Mission Planners Hoped it Would Be
The first results are in from the OSIRIS-REx mission and they couldn’t please researchers more. Asteroid Bennu is everything they had hoped it would be based on the data obtained so far. It also has provided a few surprises.
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