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NASA planet hunter finds Earth-sized world in 'Goldilocks zone'

Ivan Couronne and Issam Ahmed, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 08 08:05 AM

NASA's planet hunter satellite TESS has discovered an Earth-sized world within the habitable range of its star, which could allow the presence of liquid water. Read more »

NASA's Mars 2020 rover set to hunt Martian fossils, scout for manned missions

Rollo Ross, Reuters
Posted at Dec 28 11:05 AM

A NASA robotic rover is nearing completion ahead of a journey next year to search for evidence of past life on Mars and lay the groundwork for the space agency's mission to send humans into deep space. Read more »

NASA, Boeing investigating why Starliner spacecraft missed orbit

Joey Roulette
Posted at Dec 22 08:56 AM

The Boeing Co Starliner spacecraft that failed to hit the right orbit to reach the International Space Station is healthy, in a stable orbit and expected to land in New Mexico on Sunday morning, NASA said.   Read more »

Boeing's Starliner astronaut fails key test to reach space station

Joey Roulette, Reuters
Updated as of Dec 21 01:04 PM

Boeing Co's new astronaut capsule failed after liftoff on Friday to climb high enough in orbit to reach the International Space Station, cutting short a critical unmanned test mission in the embattled aerospace giant's race to send humans to the orbital outpost. Read more »

CRISPR, gravity waves, water on Mars: A decade of discoveries

Ivan Couronne and Issam Ahmed, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 17 11:45 AM

From finding the building blocks for life on Mars to breakthroughs in gene editing and the rise of artificial intelligence, here are six major scientific discoveries that shaped the 2010s -- and what leading experts say could come next. Read more »

NASA's probe soaring near sun reveals surprises about solar wind

Joey Roulette, Reuters
Updated as of Dec 05 07:42 AM

One of the probe's "really big surprises" was the detection of sudden, abrupt spikes in the speed of the solar wind that was so violent that the magnetic field flips itself around, a phenomenon called "switchbacks."  Read more »

NASA satellite finds crashed Indian Moon lander

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 03 07:50 AM

Blasting off in July, emerging Asian giant India had hoped with its Chandrayaan-2 ("Moon Vehicle 2") mission to become just the fourth country after the United States, Russia and regional rival China to make a successful Moon landing, and the first on the lunar south pole.   Read more »

Stellar view? Space hotels race to offer tourists a room in the sky

Umberto Bacchi, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Updated as of Dec 02 10:15 AM

US space agency NASA announced in June that it plans to allow two private citizens a year to stay at the ISS at a cost of about $35,000 per night for up to a month. The first mission could be as early as 2020.   Read more »

New on the astronaut menu: Chicken yakitori

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 27 02:02 PM

Yakitori joins 34 other Japanese items such as "onigiri" rice balls, ramen noodles, seaweed soup and cooked mackerel, as Japanese astronauts pine for a taste of home while in orbit. Read more »

Boeing received 'unnecessary' contract boost for astronaut capsule, watchdog says

Joey Roulette, Reuters
Posted at Nov 15 10:54 AM

Boeing's multi-billion dollar contract to build US astronaut capsules received an "unnecessary" extension from NASA, a watchdog report said on Thursday, the latest management blunders in the agency's program to restart domestic human spaceflight. Read more »

NASA renames faraway ice world after Nazi-link backlash

Issam Ahmed, Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Nov 13 07:45 AM

Ultima Thule, the farthest cosmic body ever visited by a spacecraft, has been renamed Arrokoth, or "sky" in the Native American Powhatan language, following a backlash over the previous name's Nazi connotations. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: November 12, 2019

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 13 12:37 AM

Here are the big stories today in photos. Read more »

LOOK: NASA captures Mercury in transit

NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory via AP
Posted at Nov 12 08:28 AM

This still image from video issued by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory shows Mercury as it passes between Earth and the sun on Monday. Read more »

NASA unveils its 1st electric airplane - a work in progress

Jane Ross, Reuters
Posted at Nov 09 05:15 PM

NASA also showed off a newly built simulator that allows engineers, and pilots, to get the feel of what it will be like to maneuver the finished version of the X-57 in flight, even as the plane remains under development. Read more »

NASA plans to send water-hunting robot to moon surface in 2022

Joey Roulette, Reuters
Posted at Oct 26 07:38 AM

WASHINGTON, United States—NASA will send a golf cart-sized robot to the moon in 2022 to search for deposits of water below the surface, an effort to evaluate the vital resource ahead of a planned human return to the moon in 2024 to possibly use it for astronauts to drink and to make rocket fuel, the US space agency said Friday. Read more »

NASA wants international partners to go to Moon too

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Oct 23 10:24 AM

WASHINGTON - As it looks to return to the Moon, NASA is open to the idea of international participation, which could mean a non-American setting foot on Earth's natural satellite for the first time in history, global space chiefs said Monday. Read more »

Typhoon Bualoi rapidly intensifies, unlikely to hit Philippines

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 22 07:51 AM

MANILA—Typhoon Bualoi (international name) quickly developed an eye and powerful thunderstorms as it intensified further, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said Monday. Read more »

Celestial fireworks: Meteor shower to light up midnight skies

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 21 12:29 PM

The Orionids, considered one of the most beautiful meteor showers, will peak on Monday and Tuesday night, astronomers said. Read more »

US astronauts embark on first all-female spacewalk in history

Joey Roulette, Reuters
Posted at Oct 19 09:56 AM

Two NASA astronauts made space history on Friday, completing the first spacewalk by an all-woman team when they stepped outside the International Space Station. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: October 18, 2019

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 19 12:28 AM

Here are the big stories today in photos Read more »