Perseverance, a six-wheeled robotic explorer, will blast off this summer to collect Martian samples for eventual return to Earth.

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.

Western University will be marking the International Day of Women and Girls in Science with an event on Feb. 11.

UBC researchers hope testing the effects of space radiation on yeast, they'll be able to protect future astronauts on long space missions.

Some Edmontonians celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing at a perhaps obvious place: the science centre.

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.

Mandla Maseko won an international competition to get a place in the Axe Apollo Space Academy in 2015.

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.

It was the third flight of a Falcon Heavy rocket, but the first ordered by the military.

An team of University of Regina students won the first phase of a nationwide challenge calling for a solution to the extremely low air pressures found on Mars.