Canadian celebrity, scientist and astronaut Chris Hadfield answers Canada.com reader questions from space

Canadian celebrity, scientist and astronaut Chris Hadfield answers Canada.com reader questions from space

Chris Hadfield Tweets about Space Odyssey’s HAL

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield updated the International Space Station’s computer software today and tweeted something rather…

Don’t worry earthlings: fly-by asteroid won’t be a disasteroid

MONTREAL - An asteroid about half the size of a football field will make a very…

Why Chris Hadfield isn’t worried about being hit by a meteor in space

The short answer is: because if something as big as the meteor that screamed over Russia…

Why does everyone in Russia have a dashboard camera?

As a meteor fell from the sky in Russia, it seems like almost everyone in the…

Naming Pluto’s moons

The SETI Institute wants to enlist YOU in the long overdue quest to name Pluto’s moons,…

Close call of Asteroid 2012-DA14 highlights new space race

Philip Sherwell It will be one near-miss for man. But a new breed of space entrepreneurs…

Ask Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield a question

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield has become an out-of-this-world celebrity during his stay on the International Space…

NASA tests vintage Apollo 11 engine to improve future missions

Jay Reeves HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — A vintage rocket engine built to blast the first U.S. lunar…

Escaping our solar system; five galactic emissaries

Seven years ago on Jan. 19, 2006, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral on…