The proposal suggests building a telescope on the far side of the moon to listen for radio signals that NASA can't hear on Earth.

Astronomers say the relatively tiny object has been circling the Earth for about three years — but it won‘t be around for much longer.

Western's Institute for Earth and Space Exploration won a bid to develop the panorama camera-style mount that will allow for 360-degree data collection.

A bright harvest moon loomed over the Okanagan on Friday night, and Global Okanagan viewers sent in their photos of the lunar event.

The Western University All-Sky Camera Network observed a fireball "as bright as the full moon" across southwestern Ontario and Quebec early Wednesday morning.

The rocks collected by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin from the moon 50 years ago were chosen by a future UBC president, who brought them home to his family.

At NASA's Kennedy Space Center, cars were backed up for miles outside the visitor complex at opening time. In Armstrong's hometown of Wapakoneta, Ohio, nearly 2,000 runners competed in "Run to the Moon" races.

The next 50 years will offer unprecedented opportunities for astronauts to go boldly where no Canadian has gone before.

William Carpentier. an Edmonton native, was the flight surgeon for the historical Apollo 11 mission on July 20, 1969 and appears in the Canadian special "Make It To The Moon," airing Sunday on Discovery and Discovery Science.

Crews are working around the clock at a NASA rocket factory, intent on meeting a new fall 2020 deadline to test launch a mega-rocket designed to propel astronauts to the moon and beyond.