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MANILA — Japan’s space agency successfully launched its most powerful flagship H3 rocket on Sunday, carrying a newly developed unmanned cargo spacecraft on its first mission to deliver supplies to the International Space Station. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, said the HTV-X1 spacecraft lifted off atop the No.Continue Reading
MANILA, Philippines – As the Philippines continues to build its capabilities in space science and technology, the question is no longer if Filipinos will one day travel to space—but how. Will the first Filipino spacefarers experience the blazing heat of a traditional re-entry, or something gentler, quieter, and more sustainable?Continue Reading
Back in 2001, British electrical engineer Roger Shawyer introduced something that made physicists do a double take—the EmDrive, a so-called “impossible drive.” Why impossible? Because it claimed to work without any propellant, seemingly flipping Newton and Einstein by defying the conservation of momentum. Unsurprisingly, scientists weren’t buying it. For twoContinue Reading
A metallic object, suspected to be space debris, has crashed in Mukuku village, Kenya. The large ring, estimated to weigh around 1,100 pounds and measuring approximately 8 feet in diameter, is thought to be part of a rocket launch vehicle. The Kenya Space Agency is currently investigating its originContinue Reading
The Coma Cluster is like a cosmic city packed with over a thousand galaxies. If you’ve got a backyard telescope, you can actually spot some of them—check out Caldwell 35 for a start! Most of the galaxies in this cluster are elliptical, which isn’t surprising. In dense clusters like this,Continue Reading
