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Agency 28/01/2026 187 views 6 likesTwo days of intense discussions and exchanges came to an end at the 18th European Space Conference in Brussels on Wednesday.ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher addressed the conference in a second keynote focusing on the evolution of...

Editor's note: This story contains discussion of astronaut fatalities and dangerous moments in human spaceflight.It was 40 years ago today (Jan. 28) that the space shuttle Challenger blasted off on its 10th mission to space. Sadly, the vehicle never...

Our world seems to be fundamentally fuzzy at the quantum level, yet we do not experience it that way....

We live near a fusion reactor in space that provides all our heat and light. That reactor is also responsible for the creation of various elements heavier than hydrogen, and that's...

NASA has selected ADNET Systems, Inc. of Bethesda, Maryland, to provide global modeling and data assimilation support at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The Global Modeling and Assimilation Support contract is a single-award, cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract...

A green and red aurora streams across Earth’s horizon above the city lights of Europe in this Jan. 19, 2026, photograph, which looks north across Italy toward Germany. The International Space Station was orbiting 262 miles above the Mediterranean...

ESA project astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski captured these stunning timelapse videos during his 20-day stay aboard the International Space Station as part of Axiom Mission 4, known as Ignis. Filmed from the Cupola – the Space Station’s iconic seven-windowed observation...

Scientists may have solved a cosmic mystery that has been troubling them since the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) began observations back in 2022.When astronomers started looking back into the early days of the universe with the cutting-edge observatory,...