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Mapping

Ininiw Acakosuk: the Cree stars

Tracking 16 Ininiw constellations and their narratives across the night sky

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People & Culture

Jenni Gibbons on her role in Canada’s return to the moon

The Canadian astronaut discusses her journey as an astronaut and next steps in space exploration

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Science & Tech

Euclid spacecraft launches into deep space

With help from Canadian scientists, this dark universe hunter aims to study why the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate

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A white man in blue Canadian Space Agency overalls smiles and gestured towards a piece of space-looking machinery against a blue background

Exploration

Jeremy Hansen will be the first Canadian to orbit the moon

The Canadian Space Agency astronaut will be part of a team of four astronauts who will be embarking on the Artemis II mission.

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Canadian businessperson Mark Pathy blasts into space on private mission

David Saint-Jacques

How to train your astronaut

Preparing for launch

Exploration

First Canadian joins the next frontier in space exploration

Man on the moon: celebrating Buzz Aldrin

Roberta Bondar

Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques launches a new educational initiative — from space

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Science & Tech

Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen will be among the next humans to fly to the moon

Hansen will be part of the NASA crew for Artemis II, which will see the astronauts spending up to three weeks on a flyby trip to the moon in 2024

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People & Culture

Remembering Canadian astronaut Ken Money

The trailblazing scientist who advanced our understanding of the impacts of spaceflight on the human body died on March 6, 2023 at the age of 88

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Science & Tech

James Webb Space Telescope reveals stunning first images of deep-space

A cosmic deep dive, these photographs are the deepest and sharpest full-colour images of the universe yet

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RADARSAT constellation mission satellite at MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates

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Canadian Space Agency launches long-awaited satellite mission

The RADARSAT Constellation Mission will capture detailed images of Canada’s landmass, helping researchers track everything from drought to the impacts of climate change in the Arctic

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space

Wildlife Wednesday: blue shark sightings boom in the Bay of Fundy

Eye in the sky: How the newly-launched James Webb Space Telescope will help us see the universe

Astronaut Chris Hadfield on “The Apollo Murders,” his thrilling novel of the Space Race

14 Photos of Comet NEOWISE from the Can Geo photo community

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Landsat Island off the coast of Labrador

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Watch: The Canadian island named after a satellite

A video by NASA’s Earth Observatory blog reveals the little-known history of tiny Landsat Island — and the Canadian woman who helped discover it

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A person in a space suit and helmet stands in front of a rocky, dry landscape on Devon Island

Science & Tech

Now you can virtually explore “Mars on Earth” in Google Street View

A new Google project zeroes in on Canada’s Devon Island, the most Mars-like environment on Earth

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An amazing view of the full moon rising above a bed of clouds, as seen from the International Space Station

Science & Tech

Canada is partnering with NASA to send humans to the moon

The federal government has announced a $2 billion investment in Canada’s space program, including a role in NASA’s Lunar Gateway project

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Science & Tech

Sneak preview: Defying Limits, by astronaut Dave Williams

A new memoir that unpacks the life of one of Canada’s most accomplished astronauts, who’s also an aquanaut, doctor, CEO and cancer survivor

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Science & Tech

Canadian meteorite sheds light on a Martian mystery

A new study suggests Mars’ moons are actually chunks of the red planet itself, and not captured asteroids as previously believed

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Articles

Dean Hadley, centre, was the youngest crew member aboard the RCMPV St. Roch when schooner sailed through the Northwest Passage in the early 1940s. (Photo: VMM. Leonard McCann Archives. Parks Canada St. Roch Photograph Collection. HCSR-40-18. 1942 crew in uniform.)

People & Culture

From the prairies to the North Pole to NASA: Remembering Dean Hadley

A worker in a flightsuit makes adjustments to a satellite

Science & Tech

Canadian Space Agency to launch new RADARSAT mission in November

A cold and windy spring night on the vast landscape of Devon Ice Cap – two subglacial lakes are lurking 750 m below the surface. Photo credit: Anja Rutishauser

Science & Tech

Super-salty lakes under Arctic ice cap could help in the search for extraterrestrial life

Aurora borealis light up the night over Waterbury Lake in northern Saskatchewan

Environment

The hidden force field that rules our world

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How and where to see today’s solar eclipse

Joshua Kutryk Jenni Sidey Canadian Space Agency astronauts

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Meet Canada’s newest astronauts

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A terrain model of a portion of Northeast Greenland National Park

Mapping

Satellites produce new ultra-precise topographic map of Earth

German satellites TanDEM-X and TerraSAR-X spent five years orbiting Earth in close formation to create 3D global map of unprecedented accuracy

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Environment

Meet the aurora chaser who named an atmospheric phenomenon “Steve”

It started as an in-joke among aurora enthusiasts, but the discovery of "Steve" is making waves in the atmospheric science community

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Science & Tech

Watch NASA’s Curiosity Rover sing ‘Happy Birthday’ to itself on Mars

August 5, 2016 marks four years since Curiosity landed on the red planet

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