Category: Beyond Earth
PhilSA provides SSTA learning kits to public schools, capacitates educators to integrate space science activities
Photo: PhilSA (Press release from the Philippine Space Agency) The Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) turned over space science and technology…
Space to lead: Fil-Am Engineer Josephine Santiago-Bond’s journey at NASA
Humanity loves stories, whether they’re about wonders long gone, modern-day marvels, or the mysteries of the cosmos. Stories can…
The Christmas Tree Cluster: Holiday cheers from the stars
ESO About 2,600 light-years away, in the constellation of the unicorn (Monoceros), is a section of space called the NGC…
Pinoy ethnoastronomy: How the stars guided our ancestors
Felix Mittermeier/Pexels It was midnight. At this ungodly hour, my orgmates and I were sitting in an open terrace, attempting…
‘The Blue Marble’: the story of Earth’s most iconic photo
Eugene Cernan, Ron Evans, and Harrisson Schmitt/NASA On December 7, 1972, a space shutterbug snapped a stolen shot that shocked…
Are we really made of cosmic dust?
NASA/ESA/HHT Our bodies are made up of atoms from stars formed billions of years ago. So yes – we are, indeed,…
Good girl, ‘Muttnik’: Laika, the first living animal to orbit Earth
NASA On November 3, 1957, the Soviet Union launched the Sputnik 2 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The…
Diwata-2: The Pinoy-made, Sun-synchronous microsatellite
STAMINA4Space On October 29, 2018, Diwata-2, the second Pinoy-made microsatellite, made its way to outer space on October 29, 2018. Its launch…
Why looking at the stars is like looking at the distant past
Yuting Gao/Pexels Did you know that when you look at the night sky, you’re actually (sort of) looking at the…
Astrology is hardly scientific—so why do many still believe it?
Getty Images/iStockphoto “Why do you still believe in astrology?” Puzzled (and with genuine curiosity), I posed this question to my…
