Tag Archives: Exoplanets

The Canadian Space Agency has announced it will contribute to the unique European Space Agency led Ariel space telescope which will examine the atmospheres of about 1000 exoplanets.

Whether it’s searching for exoplanets like Avatar’s Pandora with the Pandora SmallSat, or investigating dark energy and dark matter, Canadian researchers are taking advantage of space science research opportunities offered by the Canadian Space Agency.

Among the first science images from the deep-space James Webb Space Telescope was an incredible Canadian feat, finding water molecules in the exoplanet WASP-96 b.

In this episode of the Space Economy podcast we discuss the hunt for exoplanets, in particular those where humanity could survive. This is the ninth of ten episodes in our special series Doing Business in the Solar System hosted by Elizabeth Howell.

The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has awarded Montreal based Nüvü Camēras $1 million to continue the development of technologies for the exploration of exoplanets. This page is for subscribers only. Already a subscriber? Log in. Fact-driven space news, columns, business, policy, technology and more. Support independent journalism. SUBSCRIBE TODAY

This past week the University of Guelph physics department in collaboration with the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada – Montreal Centre and the Institute for Research on Exoplanets at the Université de Montréal spent an evening discussing the latest news and research in the exciting field of exoplanets.

Let’s start with WOW. The image you see and the video below, are from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile and show for the first time ever a Sun-like star with two exoplanets. The star system known as TYC 8998-760-1 is 300 light years from us.

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.

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.