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Latest · August 21, 2026

Stories tagged “NASA” — tech coverage from New Brunswick, Canada.

UNB Co-Authors Confirm the First Native Sulfur Ever Found on Mars

The Curiosity rover on a reddish crater floor with its arm on a glowing yellow stone, beside a spectrum with one tall sulfur peak, captioned elemental, not sulfate

Lucy Thompson and Catherine O'Connell-Cooper ran Curiosity's Canadian APXS instrument on a field of bright stones in Gale crater. The Science cover story: they are elemental sulfur, not sulfate.

When the First Canadian Flew to the Moon, Fredericton Was Listening

A Fredericton ground-station dish tracking a crewed capsule on a loop around the Moon, with a readout naming UNB the only Canadian university tracking Artemis II