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MOSCOW -- A U.S.-Russian space crew blasted off Thursday to the International Space Station following a tight quarantine amid the coronavirus pandemic. NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and Roscosmos' Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner lifted off as scheduled at 1:05 p.m. Source

Two Russian cosmonauts, Anatoli Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner, and NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy are expected to launch to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Thursday morning at 4:05 a.m. ET. Source

CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA. -- Apollo 13's astronauts never gave a thought to their mission number as they blasted off for the moon 50 years ago. Even when their oxygen tank ruptured two days later -- on April 13. Source

TORONTO -- An especially “pink” supermoon was captured rising over a bridge in New York. Resident Mike Cohea recorded the timelapse video at the Newport Pell Bridge in Rhode Island on Tuesday. Despite its vivid hue in the video, York University astronomy and physics professor Paul Delaney explains this isn’t the reason why it’s called the “pink” supermoon. Source

Hong Kong giant pandas residing in Ocean Park "successfully" mated naturally for the first time on Monday after a decade of attempts, the theme park announced. Ocean Park had tried to get the 14-year-old female and male giant pandas, Ying Ying and Le Le, to mate naturally since 2010 but with no success. Source

Full coverage at CTVNews.ca/Coronavirus Tracking every case of COVID-19 in Canada PM Trudeau updates wage subsidy and aid for students, will attend cabinet in-person Source

After a few weeks of coronavirus quarantine, your home and backyard and even your neighbourhood may feel a little smaller than it once did -- especially if you have children. That's why it's time to look up into the sky. Source

TORONTO -- BlackBerry Ltd. says its researchers have uncovered how China-backed hackers have been able to extract data from many of the world's servers for a decade -- largely without being noticed by cyber security. It says the tactics give the hackers the ability to extract information from huge amounts of valuable data from computers using the Linux operating system, which is used on most of the world's web servers and cloud servers. Source

The news that a tiger tested positive for COVID-19 at the Bronx Zoo in New York dropped like a bomb at the Toronto Zoo. Staff traded messages after news broke Sunday night. By Monday morning, new precautions — including wearing masks, gloves and coveralls — had been put in place to protect the facility's four tigers and its other big cats that include lions, cheetahs, clouded leopards, snow leopards and jaguars. Source

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA -- An aerial survey of the Great Barrier Reef shows coral bleaching is sweeping across the area off the east of Australia for the third time in five years. Bleaching has struck all three regions of the world's largest coral reef system and is more widespread than ever, scientists from James Cook University in Queensland state said Tuesday. Source