Catch a partial solar eclipse visible from eastern Canada this sunday

Do you live in eastern Canada? Then there’s a good reason to wake up early on…

SETI is a novel new search strategy close to home

It’s one of the biggest questions in modern science. If intelligent life is common in the…

Astronomers discover lone exoplanet

It’s a bizarre conundrum. Some scientists suggest that a vast number of planets in our galaxy…

Facebook tries to have it both ways on teen privacy

Facebook on Wednesday announced it was making it possible for teenage users of the social network…

SpaceX rocket ‘leaps’ 750m into the air and lands vertically on the same launch pad

Elon Musk just has to be different. First there was the billionaire’s theoretical Hyperloop transportation system,…

What the U.S. government shutdown means for space exploration

Well, we’re into day three of the U.S. government shutdown, and currently there’s no resolution in…

Canadian space agency satellite to launch on a SpaceX rocket this weekend

After several delays, CASSIOPE is set to rocket into orbit around 16:00 Universal Time/ 9:00 AM…

Another launch this week from the busy wallops island spaceport

U.S. East Coasters are about to catch sight of another spaceshot this week, with the launch…

A Tale of Two Spacecraft: MAVEN and MOM to head towards mars

Two innovative and exciting new missions are departing Earth to solve some of the mysteries of…

Frog blasted away in NASA rocket launch photo

A photo of a frog getting blasted sky-high during a NASA launch is going viral.