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An Army of Robot Telescopes in Texas Makes the Stars Feel Closer Than Ever

An Army of Robot Telescopes in Texas Makes the Stars Feel Closer Than Ever www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/s...

A new era of Lunar exploration: Canada is heading to the Moon With Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen leading the way, Canada is heading to the Moon with humans and robots, as explained by Dr. Gordon Osinski

‘The Canadian Space Agency’s Lunar Rover Mission will be the first-ever Canadian-led mission to the surface of another planetary body. Canadensys Aerospace Corporation leads the team designing and building this historic rover.’
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Gotta love Canadians - this guy was greeting folks on the Halifax, Nova Scotia waterfront who were visiting from the US on cruise ships.

Mathematicians Are Making Earth Based Telescopes Rival Space Observatories Earth's atmosphere has always been the enemy of ground based astronomy and don’t I know it. What would otherwise be crisp, clean datasets gets turned into blurry smudges. Space telescopes avoid the pr...

Mathematicians Are Making Earth Based Telescopes Rival Space Observatories
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A black and white mosaic of 20 images capturing a Martian landscape, with some elements of the Mars rover Curiosity displayed in the foreground. The tracks of rover descending into the trough can be seen on the left hand side of the mosaic.

360° panorama captured just 12 hours ago by Curiosity, from within a trough of the boxwork structure

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#Mars Oct. 12, 2025 - Sol 4687 🧪🔭
Credit images: NASA/JPL-Caltech

‘The universe has opened up for us’: meet the astro-ambassadors who welcome stargazers to the Himalayas A tourism initiative in India’s first dark sky reserve has brought new hope to a community as employment means they can stay close to their roots and culture

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Exclusive: Artemis 2 'is not the peak of our mountain, in Canada' says astronaut Hansen Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen is in his last few weeks of media availability before embarking on the first crewed mission to the moon in more than 50 years.

Words from a true visionary leader, soon to become the first non-American to fly to the Moon.
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Nasa’s Artemis II mission is crucial as doubts build that America can beat China back to the Moon The mission should launch on a flyby of the Moon in February 2026.

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Beyond the Nobel Prizes Is a World of Scientific Awards

Beyond the Nobel Prizes Is a World of Scientific Awards www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/s...

The other space race: why the world is obsessed with sending objects into orbit From temples and ashes to cars and AI, humans are populating space with beloved items.

Why we send stuff into space: Being first? Immortality? Nostalgia?Communicating with aliens? Marking the locations where we want to end up?

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Fly over Xanthe Terra with #MarsExpress 🛰️

🔴 Travel along a valley carved out some 3.5 billion years ago
🔴 Pass by impact craters
🔴 Go over lowlands once flattened by floodwaters

Enjoy the flight, and turn up the volume 🔊
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Lessons for the U.S. in 'China’s quest to engineer the future' How can a lawyerly society and an engineering society learn from each other? And what’s at stake if they fail? Author Dan Wang set out to answer those questions about the U.S. and China.

Only 7% of members of the US Congress have a STEM degree. More than 40% are lawyers.
Engineers no longer dominate China’s top leadership as they once did but they still account for 33% of the politburo - including Xi Jinping who has a degree in chemical engineering.

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How private companies are influencing the new space race From leased property to defense contracts, private space companies have become fully intertwined with public infrastructure. But not everyone’s sold on how intertwined these systems have become.

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Exploring Barcelona's Architecture Through a Mathematical Lens A virtual tour of the architecture in a city where mathematics and exploration meet.

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There Are More Robots Working in China Than the Rest of the World Combined

There Are More Robots Working in China Than the Rest of the World Combined www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/b...

Is it just me? The center of mass of Blue Moon Mk 1 is a bit high.
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Why Russia Dreams of Dominating Mars’ Moons Experts speculate a new Phobos mission could launch by 2030, leveraging advancements in propulsion and AI for safer trajectories.

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The sun rising atop the rim of Jezero Crater, captured by the Mars rover Perseverance.

The sunrise on the rim of Jezero Crater

#Mars Sep. 19, 2025 - Sol 1629
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech 🧪🔭

Canadensys gets International Lunar Observatory Association contract Canadensys Aerospace will design and build an instrument suite for the International Lunar Observatory Association (ILOA) ILO-1 mission.

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NASA FRONT PAGE, BABY!

A saucer shaped spacecraft with the Earth in the background.

Orbital Transfer Vehicle, an unbuilt space tug from the 80s. The OTV was designed to ferry payloads to geosynchronous orbit and beyond. Once done, it would fall back to Earth, skim the planet's atmosphere to slow down, and return to a space station to refuel for the next mission.

Brings back memories of the European Space Agency’s Hermes, my first program at the Canadian Space Agency, with Canada providing the flight simulator.
(See the 🇨🇦flag on the fuselage?)

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For medieval people, the Moon was both a riddle and a blessing As a symbol, the Moon did not have an easily decipherable meaning – which encouraged medieval people to read it in playful ways.

The word Monday comes from the Old English term Mōnandæg which means ‘Moon’s Day’. In Latin, this day was called dies Lūnae, which has been transformed into modern French as lundi, in Italian as lunedì and in Spanish as lunes.

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60 years after Gemini, newly processed images reveal incredible details “It’s that level of risk that they were taking. I think that’s what really hit home.”…

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Canadensys was awarded a contract by the International Lunar Observatory Association to design and build the instrument suite for their flagship ILO-1 mission, a ground-breaking observatory to be deployed near the lunar south pole in 2027.
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Launch Your Name Around Moon in 2026 on NASA’s Artemis II Mission  - NASA Lee este comunicado de prensa en español aquí.

One easy way to fly to the Moon with CSA’s Jeremy Hansen
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Is space worth the cost? Accounting experts say its value can’t be found in spreadsheets To understand what makes space exploration worthwhile, we need to look beyond rigid cost–benefit analysis.

Space exploration summons deeper values.
‘Governments’ job is not just to convince the public that space investment is worth it. This job is to make sure the result actually is worth it, in a way that reflects collective priorities’
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