There’s better equipment on EarthFor all the wonders robotic space missions have to offer, they are limited by mass, power, and size requirements. We can’t carry all our large, precise laboratory equipment to space. That limits us when we want to precisely know a rock’s age, the conditions in which it formed, and whether...
The sky is going to be a busy place this month, from The Perseids Meteor Shower to some great views of Jupiter. Lets take a closer look at what to expect from August’s astronomical...
As the commercial space industry continues to expand, spaceports are emerging as critical infrastructure for enabling access to space. While launch services remain the primary focus of most spaceports, the long-term sustainability and...
The current theoretical model for the composition of the universe is that it's made of 'normal matter,' 'dark energy' and 'dark matter.' A new uOttawa study challenges this.
A University of Ottawa study published today...
Satellites are more likely to be at risk from high-speed solar wind than a major geomagnetic storm according to a new UK-US study published this week in the Journal Space Weather.
Researchers investigating the space...
An international team led by researchers from the EXOTIC Laboratory of the University of Liège, in collaboration with MIT and the Astrophysics Institute in...
Last September, the James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, discovered JWST-ER1g, a massive ancient galaxy that formed when the universe was just a quarter...