A group of students are building and preparing a small research satellite for space at the University of Saskatchewan.

A legal dispute between a NASA astronaut and her estranged wife has raised questions about which laws apply if a person is charged with committing a crime in space.

Canadian astronaut Dave Williams is encouraging kids to "reach for the stars" when it comes to careers in the sciences.

A Virgin Galactic rocket plane on Friday soared to the edge of space with a test passenger for the first time, nudging Branson's company closer to its goal of suborbital flights for space tourists.

The U.S. Department of Defense says the development of anti-satellite laser weapons by China and Russia is among the key concerns necessitating the need for a U.S. Space Force.

Asgardia claims the status of "the first space nation - a global humanitarian project for everyone on the planet," and says it will eventually apply for United Nations membership.

Spacewalking astronauts worked to give the International Space Station's big robot arm, the world-famous CanadaArm 2, a new hand on Thursday.

The images were taken by the JunoCam, a spacecraft circling the planet at an amazingly close 9,000 kilometres above the storm.

The slip occurred during Pence's visit to the Orion clean room in NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Engineers were relieved that the Canadarm worked so well in space, since they had been unable to fully test it on Earth.