Reading Time: 3 minutes There’s a good chance the global shift from skepticism to possibility about extraterrestrial life is about to extend even further
Tag: Space
Astronomers capture rare cosmic ‘Jekyll and Hyde’
Reading Time: 2 minutes International team shares new image of stars switching between two alter egos
Prolonged journeys in space help inform research into frailty
Reading Time: 3 minutes Astronauts and seniors with frailty have much in common and innovative research may help solve problems for both
Into the great wide open: Nova Scotia’s space ambitions
Reading Time: 3 minutes A planned spaceport on the East Coast would launch eight satellite-carrying rockets annually by 2022
The Avro Arrow’s demise was a high-tech tragedy
Reading Time: 3 minutes The made-in-Canada jet interceptor certainly had its problems. But the manner in which it was killed raised serious questions
One big asteroid could ruin the mining industry
Reading Time: 3 minutes The space race is on and the payoff is an untold cache of precious metals, large enough to completely dwarf the world’s biggest mining companies
The high-flying rhetoric of the Sputnik scare
Reading Time: 3 minutes Sixty years ago, the Soviets put the first satellite in space, sparking concerns about technology and weapons superiority