Space Science

• Artemis space mission to moon considered ‘a stepping stone’ to Mars

  Artemis 1 is the first in a series of flights intended to result in a base orbiting the moon, from which crews can then venture into the solar system.

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  Aug 28, 2022
  
• ‘Now is the perfect time to be involved in space’: Edmonton physician and space scientist

  The Edmonton-raised physician, aquanaut and scientist-astronaut candidate has been fascinated by space travel as long as she can remember.

  Canada

  Jul 22, 2021
  
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• Mars scientist from Alberta excited to begin exploration after successful rover landing

  The Perseverance Rover is a probe designed to eventually bring back rocks from the red planet that could reveal signs of life.

  Canada

  Feb 18, 2021
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• UBC radio telescope picks up powerful, repeating energy burst from beyond the Milky Way

  For second time in history, a radio telescope has picked up radio bursts from outside the Milky Way, and this time it was Canadians who caught the signal.

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  Jan 10, 2019
• New research suggests winds of change blow even for black holes

  New Alberta-led research has discovered black holes are girded by electromagnetic winds that not only influence how the super-dense interstellar bodies gobble up anything that gets too close but also how they affect vast areas of space around them.

  Science

  Jan 22, 2018
• Snow falling around distant solar system

  It may be hard to believe that snow is falling in space, but that is just what astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array have discovered.

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  Jul 19, 2013