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Property sector 'welcomes' offshore gaming industry: Leechiu

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 15 12:28 PM

The offshore gaming industry could benefit not just the property sector but the economy by attracting more foreign capital to the country, the CEO of Leechiu Property Consultants said Monday. Read more »

India calls off Moon mission launch 56 minutes before blast-off

Arun Sankar, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 15 08:44 AM

SRIHARIKOTA - India on Monday dramatically scrapped the launch of a rocket that was aiming to land a probe on the Moon less than one hour before blast-off because of a "technical" problem. Read more »

Russia launches space telescope to map universe, observe black holes

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 14 09:07 AM

Russia launched a space telescope Saturday from the cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, in a joint mission with Germany intended to map X-rays across the sky and replace a project lost in January.   Read more »

Hard soil, big jumps and epiphanies: What it's like on the Moon

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 10 07:10 PM

Here are the impressions of 12 American men who walked on the Moon between 1969 and 1972, which were collected from a series of oral history interviews by NASA during the 1990s and 2000s. Read more »

NASA to send drone to Saturn's moon for clues on human origins

Reuters
Posted at Jun 28 07:26 AM

NASA plans to send a drone named Dragonfly to Saturn's biggest moon, Titan, the agency said Thursday, announcing the space agency's latest high-profile mission to explore the solar system for clues on humanity's origins. Read more »

Airbus seeks new partners to expand in US space market

Andrea Shalal, Reuters
Posted at Jun 19 10:06 AM

Airbus is ramping up production of more than 640 refrigerator-sized satellites for start-up telecoms services provider OneWeb at a facility in Florida, that its chief executive said would already give it some leverage in the US market. Read more »

BPOs show no signs of slowdown, Megaworld says

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 17 02:17 PM

In 2018, Megaworld sealed one of the "largest" real estate deals in the country for a 25-storey tower for JPMorgan Chase Bank’s global service center in Taguig, chief strategy officer Kevin Tan said. Read more »

NASA renames street for ‘hidden’ black female mathematicians

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 13 05:23 PM

Despite the achievements of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, they had to confront the racial segregation of the era. Read more »

Trump criticizes NASA moon mission after promoting it earlier

Joey Roulette, Reuters
Updated as of Jun 08 09:01 AM

US President Donald Trump on Friday criticized NASA for aiming to put astronauts back on the moon by 2024 and urged the space agency to focus instead on "much bigger" initiatives like going to Mars, undercutting his previous support for the lunar initiative. Read more »

St. Francis Square Mall closes down tiangge area

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 01 09:59 PM

The Mandaluyong mall on Saturday announced that its tiangge area, which consists of some 400 stalls, will be revamped as office spaces. Read more »

Pagkabit ng internet sa kalawakan inakalang alien invasion, UFO

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of May 25 08:53 PM

Inakala ng ilang taga-Netherlands na namumurong alien invasion ang paglalagay ng satellite na layong malagyan ng internet ang kalawakan. Read more »

SpaceX launches first satellites for Musk's Starlink internet service

Joey Roulette, Reuters
Updated as of May 24 12:21 PM

High-tech entrepreneur Elon Musk's SpaceX company launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida on Thursday on a mission to carry the first batch of 5 dozen small satellites into low-Earth orbit for his new Starlink internet service. Read more »

Why 2019 could be a 'good year' for property sector

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of May 21 10:47 AM

The growing Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and the Philippines Offshore Gaming Operations (POGOs) drive office space rentals in the metro, Pinnacle Real Estate Consulting Services head of research Jose Romarx Salas told ANC.  Read more »

Mga estudyante sa Cebu, gumawa ng app para sa parking space

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 21 01:21 AM

Problema n'yo ba ang paghahanap ng parking space? Good news dahil may dinevelop na mobile app para dyan ang mga estudyante mula Cebu. Read more »

Senate OKs bill creating PH space agency

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 20 08:05 PM

MANILA – The Senate has approved on third and final reading a bill that will establish the Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA). Read more »

Seasonal blue moon rises Sunday

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 18 06:34 PM

Filipinos may get a glimpse of the rare celestial occurrence blue moon on Sunday, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said. Read more »

SpaceX postpones Starlink satellite launch again, for 'about a week'

Reuters
Posted at May 17 11:41 AM

A SpaceX launch already scrubbed once due to inclement weather was postponed again nearly 24 hours later on Thursday, this time for "about a week," in order to update satellite software and "triple-check everything," Elon Musk's rocket company said. Read more »

SpaceX to launch 60 satellites, aiming to build orbital internet

Kenneth Chang, The New York Times
Updated as of May 16 03:57 PM

Tech visionary Elon Musk may be turning to a satellite project to fund his goal of sending people to space. Read more »

Quakes show that moon, gradually shrinking, is tectonically active

Will Dunham, Reuters
Posted at May 14 07:55 AM

The moon is not the inert world some scientists had believed it to be - based on a new analysis disclosed on Monday of quakes measured by seismometers in operation on the moon from 1969 and 1977. Read more »

Billionaire Bezos unveils moon lander mockup, touts Blue Origin's lunar goals

Joey Roulette, Reuters
Posted at May 10 07:24 AM

Billionaire entrepreneur Jeff Bezos, founder of rocket company Blue Origin, unveiled on Thursday a mockup of a lunar lander spacecraft and discussed missions to the moon in a strategy tailored to the US government's renewed push to establish a lunar outpost in just 5 years. Read more »