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The best Geminids meteor shower 2020 in Vietnam

Astronomy lovers in Vietnam will have the chance to observe the annual Geminids meteor shower which is due to peak in the early hours of Monday, Dec. 14.

SpaceX Nasa Mission: Astronauts on historic mission enter space station

Nasa's Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken complete their 19-hour flight to the orbiting laboratory.

Nation ready to enjoy Super Flower Moon on May 7

The last supermoon of the year will take place on May 7, with local people getting ready to enjoy the chance to admire the Super Flower Moon.

Coronavirus: Space crew return to very different Earth

No strangers to isolation, the trio left for the space station months before Covid-19 emerged.

Vietnamese engineering student wins internship to study at NASA

Nguyen Phuc Dat is one of the first Vietnamese students to be selected for an internship at NASA.

Earth's moon is shrinking and quaking, study says

The moon is slowly shrinking over time, which is causing wrinkles in its crust and moonquakes, according to photos captured by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

 

NASA's Juno spacecraft loops into orbit around Jupiter

 NASA'S Juno spacecraft capped a five-year journey to Jupiter on Monday with a do-or-die engine burn that looped it into orbit to probe the origins of the biggest planet in the solar system and how it impacted the rise of life on Earth,

2014 warmest year on record, say US researchers

 2014 was the warmest year on record, with global temperatures 0.68C (1.24F) above the long-term average, US government scientists have said.

Vietnamese-born physicist makes waves

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese-American physicist Nguyen Trong Hien was born in 1963 in Da Nang City. He is now working as the astronomy supervisor for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at NASA in the United States.

NASA's Curiosity drills sandstone rock on Mars

 U.S. space agency NASA said Tuesday its Curiosity rover has completed its third drilling into a Martian rock and is now preparing to use its internal instruments to study the collected powdered sample.

NASA suspends cooperation with Russia except for ISS

 U.S. space agency NASA said Wednesday that it has suspended the majority of its engagements with Russia due to the Ukraine crisis.

Researchers create first map of largest solar system moon

 U.S. researchers said Wednesday they have completed the first global geological map of Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon and the largest in the solar system.

Private U.S. cargo ship launched to Space Station

 A commercial spacecraft operated by U.S. space company Orbital Sciences Corp. blasted off on Thursday, flying its first cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station, NASA TV showed.

Nasa orders urgent spacewalks for space station repairs

 The US space agency has ordered a series of emergency spacewalks to carry out repairs on a broken cooling line at the International Space Station.

U.S. launches spacecraft to explore Martian atmosphere

 U.S. space agency NASA launched its newest Mars-bound spacecraft on Monday afternoon to look at the red planet's upper atmosphere, NASA TV showed.

American, two Russians take shortcut to space

 An American and two Russians blasted off Thursday for the International Space Station atop a Soyuz rocket that will slash more than a day off the usual travel time.

Voyager 1 becomes first man-made object to leave solar system: NASA

 U.S. space agency NASA said Thursday that its Voyager 1 spacecraft has become the first human-made object to venture into interstellar space.

Mars rover hoping to yield more secrets, one year on

 The dazzling success of NASA's rover Curiosity has paved the way for a human conquest of Mars, scientists say, almost one year after the groundbreaking probe first touched down on the Red Planet.

NASA releases images of Earth taken from Saturn, Mercury

U.S. space agency NASA released color and black-and-white images of Earth taken by two of its interplanetary spacecraft last week that show our planet and its moon as "bright beacons" from millions of kilometers away in space.

NASA aborts spacewalk after water leak inside astronaut's helmet

 U.S. space agency NASA aborted a planned 6.5-hour spacewalk by two astronauts outside the International Space Station on Tuesday, after one of the spacewalkers reported "a buildup of water" inside his helmet.