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Staff at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum helped launch StarBlox Inc., a new game for Nintendo Switch. Read more about the museum’s approach to making the game — and hear an audio clip from CBC’s All in a Day.

Curious to know what it feels like to live on the Red Planet? TripAdvisor is now offering a “Life on Mars Experience,” and it only costs $9,000 CAD! Read more from Curiosity.com about this unusual travel offering.

Following a successful launch earlier this month, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is headed straight for the Sun. Aiming to make history — and collect invaluable, new data — the Parker Solar Probe intends to fly seven times closer to the Sun than any other mission. Watch a short video on the launch and read more about what scientists are hoping to achieve (article and video in English).

A new company called Earth-i has announced it will be launching a constellation of satellites into Earth's orbit that will download "fast-turn-around pictures and colour video of the planet's surface."

When you read a scientific story in a popular blog or magazine, many times you will see the caveat "artist interpretation" next to some of the accompanying images. This as a gross undersell of the time, effort, and most important, accuracy, that goes into developing the renders. While we don't know what a black hole or an exoplanet looks like, it is important to attempt to visualize them, and to do it as accurately as possible. This video is an interview with two people who are responsible for

Human's have been launching satellites into space since 1957, and now the current number of objects in orbit larger than 10 cm is about 23,000. The growing number poses a real threat to the future of space exploration. Humanity will need to solve this problem moving forward, and ideas are currently being discussed.

Tucked between a boiled-away desert and a giant snowball, an alien world called TRAPPIST-1e may be the only habitable planet in a newly discovered batch of seven, according to a new climate model.

The only mountain on Ceres may slowly disappear over a few hundred million years, spreading out like honey on a plate.

Astronomers from Keele University, the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, and others, have discovered the first atmosphere around an Earth-sized planet. The planet, GJ1132b is about 1.4x Earth's diameter and 39 light years away from us. Currently there are over 3000 known planets orbiting stars other than the Sun, but only a handful of which have been confirmed to have atmospheres, and all of which are massive Jupiter-sized planets. In the ongoing quest to find a planet similar to Earth, this