LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Drilling into a rock near its landing site, the Curiosity rover has answered a key question about Mars: The red planet long ago ...

A space rock about the size of a jet plane will zip so close to Earth that it will briefly come between us and our weather satellites next week. ...

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield is sending his New Year greetings from space.Hadfield took a moment today on the International Space Station to send...

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield and his two fellow space travellers arrived Friday at the International Space Station and were welcomed by the three...

In an irony as ripe as weird Uncle Willard's bedside denture jar and nuttier than old Auntie Jean's inedible fruitcake, there are whispers that the National Hockey League and its players union are inching toward an agreement to truncate their age-old lockout, and allow a new season to finally begin... right around the time the world is scheduled to end.

During the second mission to the moon in 1969, Apollo 12, the crew brought back a camera that had been sent some two and a half years earlier. When they returned, the camera underwent extensive testing including microbiological analysis. Much to their surprise, they found a colony of earthly bacteria; apparently the microbes had survived the inhospitable lunar environment.

Iconic astronaut Neil Armstrong has died, but will be forever remembered through photos of his incredible life and historic journey to the moon. Ar...

Sigh. If there's one person who we think might be known by just about EVERYBODY on the planet, astronaut Neil Armstrong would be one of them. Arms...

Has NASA's stunning Curiosity rover landing made science cool? With the release of the "We're NASA and We Know It" video, you might think so. YouTu...

NASA is expecting to make two large funding commitments in the next two weeks, which may include another surface mission to Mars to build upon what th...

Late tonight (for those on the west coast), and pre-dawn Monday morning (for the rest of us in Canada), a scary-looking, laser-carrying, plutonium-powered robot rover named Curiosity will attempts to make a soft landing on Mars. Succeed or fail, it is likely that a good many people are being inspired by Curiosity, including some of whom may aspire to take on similar challenges in all walks of life in the years ahead.

MONTREAL - Canadian scientists are keeping their fingers crossed as NASA's Curiosity — the largest Mars rover ever built — heads for a rendez vous...

A team of scientists are back for their 16th summer in the High Arctic, using Devon Island’s Haughton Crater as a stand-in for Mars. ...

Legendary astronaut Neil Armstrong, who was the first person to walk on the moon, has surprised the media establishment by granting a rare...

You've probably seen NASA's breathtaking time-lapse videos before, but now the space agency has added some creative touches. Set to "Walking in the...

But today's young people aren't fools, particularly when it comes to science. Hosts Ziya Tong and Dan Riskin serve the young (and the rest of us) badly. They're both attractive and presumably intelligent. Their version of Daily Planet isn't either.

NASA will launch an airborne science lab aboard a DC-8 plane above Canadian snowstorms next week to measure snowfall from space. ...

PASADENA, Calif. — As planet Earth rang in the new year, a different kind of countdown was happening at the moon. After a 3 1/2-month journey,...

MONTREAL - Their surface likely has temperatures of 8,000 C and chunks of iron probably rain from the sky.Welcome to KOI 55.01 and KOI 55.02, two new ...

It's generally unlikely that you'll find a piece of a satellite on your front lawn, but the odds of a close encounter with space junk went up this wee...

CALGARY - Officials in the U.S. and Canada are trying to determine where debris from an American satellite have landed, but the RCMP is shooting down ...