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Duterte names head of PH Space Agency

Arianne Merez, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 08 02:18 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed an engineer-turned-academic as the head of the newly-formed Philippine Space Institute. Read more »

India targets new moon mission in 2020

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 01 06:56 PM

India plans to make a fresh attempt to land an unmanned mission on the moon in 2020 after a failed bid last year. 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 »

Eyeing combat in outer space, US creates Pentagon Space Force

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 21 05:18 PM

The Space Command will focus on warfighting -- akin to the Pentagon's regional commands like CentCom -- while the Space Force will encompass broader missions like training, procurement, long-term planning and other functions. 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 »

Boeing sends first crew capsule to ISS this week

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 18 07:53 AM

Boeing is all set to launch its Starliner spacecraft for the first time to the International Space Station at the end of this week, a key mission as NASA looks to resume crewed flight by 2020. 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 »

Partial solar eclipse visible in Philippines on Dec. 26

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 14 10:34 PM

A day after Christmas, Filipinos — particularly residents in southern Philippines — will be able to watch a solar eclipse, state weather bureau PAGASA said.  Read more »

US lawmakers green light space force

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 11 07:51 AM

The 2020 spending in the National Defense Authorization Act is a jump from the $716 billion authorized last year, and will go to pay for a wide range of military activities.   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 »

Meet the future of Philippine space exploration

Kristine Sabillo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 02 11:52 PM

In one of the buildings of the University of the Philippines’ science complex, a team of young engineers and scientists is busy at work - studying and building what is supposed to be the country’s first locally made satellite. 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 »

Black hole so huge it ‘shouldn’t even exist’ discovered in our galaxy

Jing Xuan Teng, Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Nov 30 11:50 PM

LB-1 is 15,000 light-years from Earth and has a mass 70 times greater than the Sun, according to the journal Nature. 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 »

UAE eyes new frontiers with law to regulate space tourism, mining

Dana Moukhallati, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 24 12:33 PM

The United Arab Emirates, which sent its first astronaut into space this year and has plans to launch a probe to Mars, is looking at other new frontiers -- space tourism and mining. Read more »

Black hole throws massive star bigger than our sun out of the Milky Way galaxy

Dennis Overbye, The New York Times
Posted at Nov 16 06:27 PM

The star is about twice as massive as our own sun and ten times more luminous. 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 »

China completes lander test for first Mars mission in 2020

Reuters
Posted at Nov 14 03:08 PM

China on Thursday successfully completed a lander test in northern Hebei province ahead of an unmanned exploration mission to Mars next year.   Read more »