Carried on a helium balloon the size of a football stadium, a revolutionary new telescope could forever change the way we carry out our explorations of the Cosmos. Flying at an altitude of 40 km (25 ...

The NASA launch of a new generation telescope at 9:10 PM EST (2:10 AM GMT) Saturday, June 11 was made possible in part by sophisticated engineering expertise from AMEC, the international project ...

Pauline Barmby receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council and the Canadian Space Agency and was co-chair of the Canadian Astronomical Society’s 2020 Long Range Plan ...

Researchers at Western University and Bishop’s University are the recipients of $1.1 million to develop what could become Canada’s next space telescope mission. The funding from the Canadian Space ...

Canada’s radio telescope has detected the second repeating fast radio burst (FRB). FRBs are short bursts of radio waves coming from far outside our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists believe FRBs emanate ...

Bryan Gaensler is the co-chair of the Canadian Astronomy Long Range Plan, 2020-2030. He receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Canada Research ...