Posts Tagged: NASA
Expert available to comment on NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)
September 26, 2022
After nearly a year since its launch last November, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) will make contact with the…
Planetary scientist available to comment on NASA’s discovery of surface water on Moon
October 26, 2020
NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) confirmed today – for the first time ever – water on the sunlit…
Bright fireball event near Bancroft, Ont. may have dropped meteorites
July 24, 2019
A fireball as bright as the full moon was observed by the Western University All-Sky Camera Network across southern Ontario…
Western planetary scientists assist in capturing first full-colour image of NASA InSight using HiRISE space camera
December 13, 2018
Houston, there is no problem here. Eric Pilles assisted in capturing – for the first-time ever – extraordinary and highly…
Boy meets world: Life-long space buff and Western graduate student discovers exoplanet
October 11, 2018
Ever since Chris Fox was a young boy, he wanted to visit alien planets. With no immediate plans for such…
NASA shortlists Western co-investigated project for future launch to Saturn’s largest moon
March 15, 2018
NASA has shortlisted a revolutionary strategy, co-investigated by a Western University planetary scientist, for a future launch mission that could…
Western University astronomers predict possible birthplace of Rosetta-probed comet 67P
October 17, 2016
When the Rosetta spacecraft successfully touched down on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on September 30, 2016, the news was shared globally via…
Western University cameras capture fireball in the sky over Georgian Bay
October 7, 2016
Researchers from Western University have released footage of a basketball-sized fireball that was seen widely by observers throughout southern Ontario…
Western astronomer part of international identification of possible population of new black holes
June 27, 2016
Astronomers have combined data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Hubble Space Telescope and the National Science Foundation’s Karl G….
Extraterrestrial investigator and retired NASA administrator asks, Are we alone?
February 2, 2016
Charged with determining the existence of life elsewhere in the universe, the Chairman of the Breakthrough Prize Foundation – an…