Science

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.

The Cheops telescope, a project of the European Space Agency (ESA), has now joined other similar spacecraft that examine stars in the hunt for exoplanets.

Rockets capture our imagination. Whether it’s to launch humans to the ISS or a satellite for Earth observation. Learn more in this NASAatHome feature.

Fifty years ago today at 2:13 p.m EST the Apollo 13 mission lifted off from Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on what would become a gripping nail-bitting harrowing mission, but with a happy outcome.

The Canadian Space Agency science advisor to the President is among the research experts participating in the new CanCOVID initiative, which brings together researchers, clinical collaborators and healthcare stakeholders to address the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Proxima Centauri B is the closest known exoplanet to Earth. It is a rocky sized super Earth planet and is part of this weeks Science Weekend feature.

Wilfrid Laurier professor Shohini Ghose was the guest of the Perimeter Institute on March 4, 2020 where she “guided the audience through the latest advances in the quantum world and shared her own journey in quantum science.”

In the past year astronomers have seen the remarkable dimming of the star Betelgeuse leading some to speculate if it was going to explode in the near future, near being on a cosmic scale.