Red dawn
PL-Caltech/NASA Mars today is a freeze-dried and rusted desert. But this year, a picture of a very different Mars began to emerge: Four billion years ago, scientists believe, Mars had a thicker...
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REUTERS/Al Youm Al Saabi Newspaper Good News Meaningful diplomacy Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s “deep concerns” about the seven-year sentence handed to Mohamed Fahmy, the Canadian-Egyptian Al Jazeera...
View ArticleJulie Payette overcame doubts, disadvantages to become astronaut
NASA MONTREAL – Five years after her final flight, retired astronaut Julie Payette admits she had doubts she would ever fly as she watched the Americans send astronauts to the moon in the late 1960s...
View ArticleBoeing and SpaceX to ferry astronauts to space station
(NASA/European Space Agency/AP) Aviation giant Boeing and billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX have won contracts to deliver U.S. astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) beginning in 2017. NASA...
View ArticleNASA spacecraft enters Mars’ orbit almost a year after launching
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA’s Maven spacecraft arrived at Mars late Sunday after a 711 million kilometre journey that began nearly a year ago. The robotic explorer fired its brakes and successfully...
View ArticleOne giant peek into mankind: What’s inside an astronaut?
Mark Kelly (left) and Scott Kelly appear on NBC News’ “Today” show. (Peter Kramer/NBC/Getty Images) On the short list of people who’ve been into space, two are identical twins. Scott and Mark Kelly,...
View ArticleCanada rejects visas of Russian delegates to attend space conference
General Walter Natynczyk, president of the Canadian Space Agency, participates in a plenary session with leaders of other major space agencies at the 65th International Astronautical Congress in...
View ArticleStudent science experiment on hold over rocket explosion
KAMLOOPS, B.C. – A year’s worth of hard work and fundraising efforts by a group of students from Kamloops, B.C., have gone up in flames with the spectacular explosion of a commercial rocket bound for...
View Article’10, 9 … wait!’ NASA delays Orion launch
The #Orion launch is scrubbed for today. Next launch opportunity in 24 hours. — Orion Spacecraft (@NASA_Orion) December 4, 2014 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s new Orion spacecraft will have to wait...
View ArticleNewsmaker of the day: Orion and NASA’s mission to Mars
Joe Raedle/Getty Images When the spacecraft Orion launched into orbit this morning at 7:05 (EST), it marked “Day One of the Mars era,” according to NASA administrator Charles Bolden. With 1,200 sensors...
View ArticleCuriosity Rover finds new evidence of water on Mars
PL-Caltech/NASA CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s Curiosity rover is helping scientists close in on a Martian mystery: Why does a mountain jut out of a barren crater? Scientists said Monday that rock...
View ArticleNavy ship bringing NASA’s Orion spacecraft to shore
SAN DIEGO — A U.S. Navy ship carrying NASA’s new Orion spacecraft was making its way to San Diego on Monday after retrieving the capsule from its Pacific Ocean splashdown point about 600 miles...
View Article‘Hubble inspires the world.’ Cosmic fireworks celebrate 25 years in orbit
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — What better way to celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope’s quarter-century in orbit than with cosmic fireworks? In celebration of the 25th anniversary of Hubble’s launch, NASA...
View ArticleSpacecraft makes flyby of Pluto after journey of 3 billion miles
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft was about 3.7 million miles (6 million kilometres) away from Pluto, right, and Charon when it snapped this portrait July 8, 2015. Since being discovered in 1930, Pluto...
View ArticleFranklin Chang Díaz: The rocket man
Photograph by Nathan Lindstrom The man who wants to change the future of space travel drives a 1983 Volkswagen Jetta. Rusted and worn, the silver-coloured beater gets Franklin Chang Díaz from A to B,...
View ArticleIs this the spacesuit of the future?
A rendering of the Z2 spacesuit, designed for Mars’s airless environment. (NASA) Mars is a hostile neighbour. Its average temperature hovers around -60 °C, although it can dip as low as -125 °C in...
View Article13 great Canadian space ideas
James Webb Telescope. NASA Some of the most exciting new space technologies are coming out from right here in Canada. Here’s a look at some of the best ideas that our country has contributed to better...
View ArticleVideo: NASA announces major Mars water discovery
A Martian mystery is solved: Far from being an arid, freeze-dried desert, water, it seems, flows on Mars even today—that’s according to new research being presented in the journal Nature Geoscience....
View ArticleMars: When do we get to visit?
This image shows RSL extending downhill from bedrock cliffs, mostly towards the northwest (upper left). This image was acquired in middle summer when RSL are most active in the southern mid latitudes....
View ArticleFor eighth time in 2015, Earth smashes a monthly heat record
WASHINGTON — Even in a record-breaking hot year for Earth, October stood out as absurdly warm. The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said that last month globally was 58.86 degrees...
View ArticleThe ABCs of NASA
It’s not rocket science—but then again, it sort of is. Adam Volland, a technical writer at NASA—you know, the people who put Americans into space—was peering at satellite images over a wildfire in...
View ArticleWelcome home, Scott Kelly: Canada’s spacemen greet a record-breaker
Astronaut Scott Kelly (Photo courtesy of NASA) After a 340-day stint on the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko have safely landed back on...
View ArticleTalking Points: Of garbage eating and cancer treating
Jacob Tremblay poses backstage at the 2016 Canadian Screen Awards at the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts on March 13, 2016 in Toronto, Canada. (George Pimentel/WireImage/Getty Images) Need an...
View ArticleNASA: Global warming is now changing how Earth wobbles
WASHINGTON — Global warming is shifting the way the Earth wobbles on its polar axis, a new NASA study finds. Melting ice sheets, especially in Greenland, are changing the distribution of weight on...
View ArticleSpaceX delivers world’s 1st inflatable room for astronauts
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – SpaceX has made good on a high-priority delivery: the world’s first inflatable room for astronauts. A SpaceX Dragon cargo ship arrived at the International Space Station on...
View ArticleWhat on Earth should we be scared of now?
Every time we turn around, there’s another threat to humanity. Let’s get up to date with a new instalment of: What’s Killing Us Now? Planet Nine. Have you heard about this thing? Turns out there’s...
View ArticleMercury makes rare move across the sun
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — For the first time in 10 years, Mercury passed directly between the Earth and sun on Monday, resembling a black dot against the vast, glowing face of our star. Many stargazers...
View ArticleAstronauts enter world’s first inflatable space lodge
This May 28, 2016 file image made from video provided by NASA shows the inflation of a new experimental room at the International Space Station. (NASA via AP) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The world’s first...
View ArticleJupiter has a new satellite – and this one is from Earth
A 1/4 scale model size of NASA’s solar-powered Juno spacecraft is displayed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. on Friday, July 1, 2016.(AP Photo/Richard Vogel) PASADENA, Calif. –...
View ArticleWhat you need to know about Asteroid Bennu
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — An asteroid that may hold the key to life is getting its first visitor in billions of years. Asteroid Bennu, a black roundish rock taller than the Empire State Building, is the...
View ArticleEurope’s Mars probe thought to have crash-landed
NASA thinks the black mark left on the surface of Mars is where the Schiaparelli lander may have exploded on impact. (Image via NASA) BERLIN – Europe’s experimental Mars probe hit the right spot – but...
View ArticleWhy Saturn’s moon Titan is the best spot for an off-world colony
With the likes of Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk and even Donald Trump talking up manned missions to Mars, an exciting new life may await us in the off-world colonies. But is the red planet a red herring?...
View ArticleLive: NASA discovers a solar system—with some planets with Earth-like potential
This artist’s concept shows what each of the TRAPPIST-1 planets may look like, based on available data about their sizes, masses and orbital distances. (NASA/JPL-Caltech) Well, that was a big bang,...
View ArticleScientists discover seven Earth-sized planets that could hold life
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — For the first time ever, astronomers have discovered seven Earth-size planets orbiting a nearby star — and these new worlds could hold life. This cluster of planets is less than...
View ArticleNerds are literal, and other things we learned from TRAPPIST-1
Five thoughts on the discovery of seven potentially habitable Earth-size planets around a single sun known as TRAPPIST-1: 1. The star is classified as an “ultra-cool dwarf,” which makes it all the...
View ArticleSolar eclipse 2017: Live video from NASA
An illustration of the 2017 solar eclipse. (NASA) If you couldn’t make it to the path of totality for Monday’s eclipse—or if you forgot your protective glasses at home—NASA’s got you covered. The...
View ArticleHurricane Harvey captured from outer space
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View ArticleWatch live from NASA as Cassini plunges into Saturn
On Friday morning the Cassini spacecraft will turn its antennae towards earth one last time as it plunges into Saturn’s atmosphere and eventually burns up, the grand finale of Cassini’s remarkable...
View ArticleSaying goodbye to the universe’s best photographer
This Friday, at the projected time of 7:55 a.m., the Cassini spacecraft will plunge into Saturn after completing its 20-year journey to explore the massive, ringed planet. Over that time, Cassini has...
View ArticleSaying goodbye to the historic Cassini spacecraft
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