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Branson's Virgin Orbit reaches space for first time

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 18 07:10 AM

WASHINGTON - Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit project on Sunday successfully flew a rocket into space from the wing of a 747 plane, paving the way for a new method of launching low-cost satellites.   Read more »

NASA's Boeing moon rocket cuts short 'once-in-a-generation' ground test

Joey Roulette, Reuters
Posted at Jan 17 08:38 AM

NASA's deep space exploration rocket built by Boeing briefly ignited all four engines of its behemoth core stage for the first time on Saturday, cutting short a crucial test to advance a years-delayed US government program to return humans to the moon in the next few years. Read more »

China’s experiment in quantum communication brings Beijing closer to creating hack-proof network

Liu Zhen, South China Morning Post
Posted at Jan 09 01:37 PM

China is positioning itself to be a world leader in quantum technology, including drafting international standards. Read more »

Jamiroquai frontman denies he's US Capitol Hill rioter

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Jan 08 12:48 PM

Jamiroquai singer Jay Kay has been keeping a low profile of late, and assures the world he definitely wasn't in Washington as part of the mob of Donald Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol. Read more »

China's Tianwen-1 expected to reach Mars orbit next month

South China Morning Post
Posted at Jan 05 12:19 PM

China's first Mars mission, Tianwen-1, has now travelled more than 400 million km (249 million miles) and is expected to reach the red planet's orbit in February. Read more »

Neptune’s weird dark spot just got weirder

Shannon Stirone, The New York Times
Posted at Dec 24 04:07 AM

Neptune boasts some of the strangest weather in the solar system. The sun’s eighth planet holds the record for the fastest winds observed on any world, with speeds cutting through the atmosphere upward of 1,100 mph, or 1 1/2 times the speed of sound.    Read more »

'Great Conjunction': Earthlings treated to rare alignment of Jupiter and Saturn

Peter Szekely, Reuters
Posted at Dec 22 12:08 PM

The evening sky over the Northern Hemisphere treated stargazers to a once-in-a-lifetime illusion on Monday as the solar system's 2 biggest planets appeared to meet in a celestial alignment that astronomers call the "Great Conjunction." Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: December 17, 2020

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 17 11:49 PM

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

Chang’e-5 back with samples after lunar probe

China Daily via Reuters
Updated as of Dec 17 01:33 PM

Researchers work around Chang'e-5 lunar return capsule carrying moon samples next to a Chinese national flag, after it landed in northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Thursday. Read more »

Chang’e 5 lunar mission returns to Earth after collecting moon samples

Liu Zhen in Beijing, South China Morning Post
Posted at Dec 17 01:14 PM

The Chinese probe completes its 23-day space mission and lands in Siziwang Banner of the Inner Mongolia region, says Xinhua. The mission returns with the first moon samples in 44 years. Read more »

SpaceX’s Starship explodes in crash landing

Kenneth Chang, The New York Times
Posted at Dec 10 08:42 AM

A test of a prototype of a rocket that Elon Musk has dreams of sending people to Mars in flew several miles high on Wednesday. But in attempting to land, it hit the ground too fast and exploded. Read more »

Japanese space probe Hayabusa-2 back on earth, delivers samples

Morgan Sette, AFP
Posted at Dec 06 06:11 PM

A long exposure shows the light trail of a re-entry capsule entering the Earth's atmosphere as seen from Coober Pedy in South Australia early on Sunday. Read more »

China completes its first-ever docking in lunar orbit

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Dec 06 02:23 PM

A Chinese probe carrying samples from the lunar surface successfully docked Sunday with a spacecraft orbiting the moon, in another space first for the nation, state media reported. Read more »

Bezos says Blue Origin will take the first woman to moon's surface

Reuters
Posted at Dec 06 10:05 AM

Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin will take the first woman to the moon's surface, the billionaire said on Friday as NASA nears a decision to pick its first privately built lunar landers capable of sending astronauts to the moon by 2024.   Read more »

Japan space capsule picked up in Australia after voyage to asteroid

Anna Watanabe, Kyodo News
Posted at Dec 06 09:59 AM

The Japanese space agency said it retrieved from the Australian desert on Sunday a tiny capsule returned to Earth from its Hayabusa2 space probe, hoping it has safely transported samples from the Ryugu asteroid that could help explain the origins of life. Read more »

Dahil bawal sa malls: Mga bata ipasyal sa parke, ayon sa ilang ekspeto

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 03 11:18 PM

Ayon sa pediatric infectious disease expert, kung di puwede sa mall ang mga bata ay maganda kung sa park sila dadalhin. Read more »

ALAMIN: Mga tulong ng cube satellite Maya-1 para sa pananaliksik ng Pilipinas sa kalawakan

Josiah Antonio, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 03 09:59 PM

Naging matagumpay ang paglalakbay sa kalawakan ng Maya-1 na nakabalik na sa mundo nitong Nobyembre. Ayon sa isa sa mga lumikha nito, malaki ang tulong ng cube satellite, ang pinakauna ng Pilipinas, para sa pananaliksik ng bansa sa kalawakan. Read more »

Chinese probe completes moon sampling

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 03 04:13 PM

A Chinese space probe sent to gather material from a previously unexplored part of the moon has completed its mission and is preparing to send back the world's first lunar samples in 4 decades, Beijing said Thursday. Read more »

Chinese probe lands on Moon to gather lunar samples

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 02 06:36 AM

China landed a probe on the Moon on Tuesday, said Beijing's space agency, which aims to bring back to Earth the first lunar samples in four decades.   Read more »

Massive Puerto Rico space telescope collapses

Joey Roulette, Reuters
Posted at Dec 01 11:56 PM

The massive telescope at Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory that had been deteriorating since August collapsed on Tuesday, officials said, after 57 years of astronomical discoveries.   Read more »