At this time of year, Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po’s top priority is finalising the Hong Kong government’s budget for 2026-27, balancing requests for incentives and welfare against calls for a return to fiscal prudence. For decades, budget speeches have followed a familiar structure: a review of past performance, near- and medium-term forecasts, support measures…
The UK government is making provisions for an emergency alert due to concerns about an out-of-control Chinese rocket falling from space. Officials are keeping an eye on the debris from the Zhuque-3 rocket, which has a small chance of landing in Britain. Zhuque-3 was launched on 3 December 2025 from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center…
Their eyes were watching. Some knew something was wrong. Others were slow to realize. Soon everyone came to grief. Forty years ago Space Shuttle Challenger climbed into the clear amid blue skies over Cape Canaveral. The nation’s youth watched on TVs across the nation and from school playgrounds across Central Florida. Christa McAuliffe was to…
China news correspondent, Lianhe Zaobao More than 50 years after Apollo, the US races back to the moon amid growing fears that China could beat it. What was once a symbol of exploration is now a high-stakes arena of strategic rivalry. Lianhe Zaobao’s correspondent Yush Chau finds out more. When American astronauts stepped onto the…
A woman has pleaded guilty to falsely reporting that her astronaut ex-wife committed a crime while deployed to the International Space Station. Summer Heather Worden, 50, told law enforcement in July 2019 that her former spouse had illegally accessed her bank account earlier that year while she was in space, according to a news release…
Space debris may have delayed Chinese astronauts’ return to Earth – CBS News Watch CBS News A group of Chinese astronauts is back on Earth after being delayed by apparent space debris damage. CBS News’ Errol Barnett reports. Source link
Blue Origin launched its second heavy-lift New Glenn rocket Thursday, putting two small NASA satellites onto a long, looping course to Mars to learn more about how the sun has slowly blown away the red planet’s once-thick atmosphere. The centerpiece of Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos’ space ambitions, the towering 321-foot-tall New Glenn…
The Ceres-1 Y7 carrier rocket, shown in August 2023 carrying seven satellites, including the Xiguang-1 01, lifts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China. On Sunday, the 62-foot-tall rocket launched from the same site at 11:02 p.m. EST. Photo by Wang Jiangbo/EPA Nov. 10 (UPI) — A rocket by a private Chinese…
Scientists have spotted the brightest flare yet from a supermassive black hole that shines with the light of 10 trillion suns. These bursts of light and energy can come from things like tangled-up magnetic fields or hiccups in the heated gas disks surrounding black holes. The flares help illuminate researchers’ understanding of the black holes…
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center — China was set to launch its Shenzhou-21 spacecraft on Friday, carrying a new three-person crew to man the country’s own Tiangong space station on a mission focused on scientific research. The replacement crew includes China’s youngest-ever taikonaut — as China’s space program calls its astronauts — and, for the first time…