Space Telescope

• Japan launches ‘moon sniper’ landing craft, X-ray telescope into space

  The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission, or XRISM, will measure the speed and makeup of what lies between galaxies, according to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.

  World

  Sep 6, 2023
  
• ‘Webb is a time machine’: Canadian astronomer looking forward to new research

  Marcin Sawicki is a professor of astronomy at Saint Mary's University in Halifax and also a Canadian researcher with the Webb telescope team.

  Canada

  Jul 14, 2022
  
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• ‘Exceptional day’: Canadian scientists rejoice successful launch of space telescope

  NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will search for unprecedented details on the first galaxies created after the Big Bang.

  Science

  Dec 25, 2021
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• World’s largest space telescope launched on quest to observe 1st stars, galaxies

  NASA's James Webb Space Telescope soared from French Guiana on South America's northeastern coast, riding a European Ariane rocket into the Christmas morning sky.

  Science

  Dec 25, 2021
• Canadian-made space telescope to search for distant planets, explore ‘origins of life’

  The Canadian Space Agency has granted $1.1 million to a research team led by a Quebec astrophysicist to develop a new space telescope.

  Education

  Aug 7, 2021
• UBC graduate student finds 17 new planets, one potentially Earth-like

  A UBC PhD candidate has found 17 new planets, including one in the so-called 'habitable zone' by combing through data from a NASA space telescope.

  Feb 28, 2020
• Tech trouble hobbles Hubble Space Telescope

  NASA says the Hubble Space Telescope has been put into 'safe mode' due to problems with its pointing mechanism.

  Science

  Oct 8, 2018
• Corning donates $1.8M in mirror components for private space telescope

  The not-for-profit BoldlyGo Institute wants to put its ASTRO-1 telescope in orbit by the mid-2020s and Corning is helping them reach their goal.

  Science

  Jul 30, 2014