Tag Archives: 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.

In our search for life in the universe our solar systems provides us with tantalizing options including several ocean 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.

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.

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.

The Canadian Space Agency has awarded three contracts to universities related to last years Space Exploration Science Maturation Study and a robotic technology contract to MDA.

Today NASA announced another exciting find in its quest to find exoplanets and habitable worlds. TRAPPIST-1 is an ultracool dwarf star 40 light-years from space and today astronomers announced the discovery of seven Earth-sized planets, three of which are in the star’s habitable zone and could host oceans of surface water.