The Philippines is entering a new phase in science and technology under a new law creating a space agency, a move officials say will have positive effects on national security and public welfare. The Philippine Space Act was signed by President Rodrigo Duterte on Aug. ...
Planet 10 times Earth's mass may have smacked Jupiter long ago
Jupiter may have been smacked head-on by an embryonic planet 10 times Earth's mass not long after being formed — a monumental crash with apparent lasting effects on the Jovian core, scientists said on Thursday. The violent collision, hypothesized by astronomers to explain data collected ...
Chinese startup LinkSpace revs up for boom in reusable rockets
Chinese startup LinkSpace on Saturday completed its third test of a reusable rocket in five months, stepping up the pace in China's race to develop a technology key to cheap space launches in an expected global boom in satellite deployment. LinkSpace's RLV-T5 rocket blasted off ...
International team of astronomers discover massive ancient galaxies
An international team of astronomers, including those from the University of Tokyo and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, have discovered 39 massive galaxies thought to have been actively forming stars over 11 billion years ago. The galaxies are believed to be the ancestors of ...
Astronomers find that Milky Way is a warped and twisted galaxy
Astronomers have created the most precise map to date of the Milky Way by tracking thousands of big pulsating stars spread throughout the galaxy, demonstrating that its disk of myriad stars is not flat but dramatically warped and twisted in shape. The researchers on Thursday ...
Einstein's theory of general relativity survives test from star orbiting black hole
Observations of light coming from a star zipping in orbit around the humongous black hole at the center of our galaxy have provided fresh evidence backing Albert Einstein's 1915 theory of general relativity, astronomers said on Thursday. Researchers studied a star called S0-2, boasting a ...
Space 'anarchy': Lack of rules evident as businesses race to conquer the skies
Half a century after astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first man on the moon, a new space race is under way to exploit the skies for commercial profit. Tech giants and startups pursuing bold plans such as selling space tourism, mining asteroids and beaming giant ...
The new moon race could define our future
Nations are heading back to the moon because they wish to ultimately stay there.
Astronaut 'ambassadors' to encourage Tokyo 2020 torchbearers from space
Japanese astronauts will broadcast messages of encouragement from space during the torch relays for both the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, according to Olympic organizing committee officials. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronauts Soichi Noguchi and Akihiko Hoshide will send the messages to torchbearers from ...
Guaranteeing the freedom to navigate the stars has become no less essential to global peace than safeguarding the freedom to navigate the seas.
Moon landing's 'Dish' telescope still transmitting from Australia
It is known as "The Dish" and it soars above a nondescript paddock in rural Australia. Without it, hundreds of millions of people would never have seen all of the generation-defining footage of Neil Armstrong walking on the moon 50 years ago. An estimated 600 ...
Robots to install telescopes to peer into cosmos from the moon
As the United States races to put humans back on the moon for the first time in nearly 50 years, a NASA-funded lab in Colorado aims to send robots there to deploy telescopes that will look far into our galaxy, remotely operated by orbiting ...
