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The Artemis II crew has been awarded the prestigious Stephen Hawking Medal at the Starmus Festival. The astronauts join an elite roster of honorees recognized for excellence in science communication.
A new study published in Science Advances investigates the pressing questions of how prolonged exposure to microgravity alters the human genome. The findings offer vital insights for safeguarding astronaut health on future long-duration space journeys.
On October 17, 2016, the Antares rocket successfully returned to flight two years after a catastrophic pad explosion, restoring a critical commercial cargo lifeline to the International Space Station.
In Episode 232 of the This Week In Space podcast, hosts analyzed the recent large data dump from the Artemis II mission. Expert contributors discussed preparation milestones and technical details of the lunar flight.
Born on October 17, 1956, Mae Jemison showed an early passion for science that led her to Stanford University and ultimately into space exploration history as a pioneering astronaut.
In the dramatic finale of Lanterns, John Stewart goes rogue in Sector 2814 and embraces fear, leaving major unanswered questions for a potential second season.
Despite the upcoming BepiColombo mission to Mercury, scientists emphasize that a lander is essential to fully comprehend the innermost planet. Without direct surface measurements, the complex evolution of Mercury remains incomplete.
An astronomer from the University of Missouri is leading 130 researchers across 62 institutions, including NASA, Caltech, Princeton, and Harvard. The ambitious mission aims to capture an unprecedented view of the early universe.
The astronauts of SpaceX's Crew-12 mission highlighted the profound impact of viewing Earth from orbit, describing it as a fragile haven of life in a vast void. They expressed a wish that everyone could experience this perspective.
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has named Stephen Cash as director of the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. A veteran engineer, Cash returns to lead the institution where he began his career more than forty years ago.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is preparing to launch its groundbreaking MMX mission to Phobos. The spacecraft will lift off on an H3 rocket from Tanegashima Space Center.
Tesla has showcased its new Roadster in a spectacular stunt using SpaceX thrusters to make the vehicle fly, combining space propulsion technology with cutting-edge automotive engineering.
Launched on October 16, 1975, the first operational GOES satellite opened a new era of meteorological monitoring by observing Earth continuously from orbit.
With five spacecraft now docked at the ISS following Dragon's arrival, the Expedition 75 crew has begun unloading cargo and activating new science payloads.
Following the splashdown of NASA's Artemis II mission, the Orion heat shield underwent extensive analysis. Underwater inspections and evaluations confirmed the thermal protection system successfully guarded crew and spacecraft.
Researchers have quantified diffusion and scattering within Solar Orbiter's Extreme Ultraviolet High-Resolution Imager, improving the precision and clarity of solar observations.
Aiming to revive the excitement of the 1960s space race, the "Mission: 60s" event has been announced, inviting participants to step back into the era of early rocket flights.
Allison Mjoen, operations manager for NASA's Exploration Ground Systems Program, oversees SLS rocket infrastructure. Her work shapes the critical ground operations designed to return humans to the Moon.
Internal records show NASA is racing to rebrand artificial intelligence as 'super intelligence' following executive orders. The rapid shift directed by top officials is fueling widespread employee concerns.
Launched on October 16, 1975, the first GOES satellite, developed jointly by NASA and NOAA, ushered in a new era of continuous monitoring for both Earth and space weather.
Rocket Lab has postponed the maiden flight of its next-generation, partially reusable Neutron launch vehicle to 2027 following a manufacturing complication.
High-definition satellite images captured by NASA track power outages caused by Hurricane Isaias along the Florida coast, illustrating the exact pace of electrical grid recovery.
Playing a key role in JAXA's MMX mission, NASA aims to bring samples from Mars' enigmatic moons back to Earth. Scientists hope to finally uncover the true origin of Phobos and Deimos.
NASA's Earth-observing satellites are closely monitoring the emergence of a historic El Niño pattern in the Pacific. Space assets are tracking the unprecedented oceanic warming.
The International Space Station is boosting its power infrastructure using next-generation roll-out solar arrays. This upgrade supports critical life support systems and deep space research.
Under the FarmFlux mission, a NASA A200 aircraft will conduct low-altitude flights over Texas farmland to measure gaseous and particulate agricultural emissions entering the atmosphere.
Astronomers at Caltech and NASA JPL are utilizing SPHEREx data to decode the atmospheric mysteries of brown dwarfs. The study reveals critical gaps in current stellar and planetary evolution models.
Launched on October 15, 1997 atop a Titan IVB rocket, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft embarked on a monumental voyage to Saturn. The mission stands as one of the most transformative achievements in planetary exploration.
NASA astronaut Deniz Burnham is undergoing rigorous safety qualifications ahead of her upcoming spaceflight next year. The Adana-born astronaut shared details about her operational training for the mission.
CERN and European AI developer Mistral have signed a strategic partnership to build foundation models for scientific discovery. The collaboration brings together extreme-scale physics data and advanced AI technology.
NASA's Perseverance Rover has reached another milestone. It now holds the record for the longest distance travelled on another world, meaning Mars and Earth's Moon. It's all thanks the ingenuity behind AutoNav, it's hazard-detection driving system. It's a win for science, as more distance travelled…
NASA's Curiosity rover shared a captivating panorama of a Martian sunrise from the slopes of Mount Sharp. Without white-balance adjustments, the image shows what a viewer would actually see.
On October 14, 1947, Captain Chuck Yeager piloted the Bell X-1 aircraft to 1,127 km/h, breaking the sound barrier and paving the way for future space travel.
Launched in January by the Continuous Improvement Team, CERN's CERNidée portal allows staff to share process enhancement ideas. Averaging over one submission per working day in early 2026, it is streamlining operations.
The VERTECS astronomical nanosatellite, built by a Japanese university consortium, has concluded in-orbit testing. Meeting all performance standards, it has begun routine scientific observations.
A new study in PLoS One by Medical College of Wisconsin researchers examines how weightlessness and deep space radiation pose lasting cardiovascular risks for future Mars-bound astronauts.
The public consultation process for CERN's Future Circular Collider (FCC) project has concluded in France and Switzerland. The four-month initiative fostered extensive dialogue with local communities.
CERN has fully implemented two-factor authentication (2FA) across its key remote access gateways. The integration of eduVPN completes the protection of CERN's IT services and campus network.
Using observations from NASA's Juno spacecraft, an international team led by Shandong University shows that Jupiter's magnetodisk is a rippling structure that rotates with the planet, contrary to what scientists previously thought.
In just one more month, the European Space Agency’s Hera mission will make history. Moving at 12 kilometers per second versus Earth, the mission is about to rendezvous with the binary Dimorphos-Didymos asteroid pair. NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission slammed into Dimorphos in…
Shaken, spun, baked, and blasted, the Griffin-1 spacecraft was put through weeks of tests to show it can survive the conditions of launch through lunar landing.
NASA experiments focused on human and plant health and drug-resistant organisms will travel to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX's 35th Commercial Resupply Services mission for the agency from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, advancing research that benefits life on Earth…
The Martian Moons eXploration ( MMX ) mission is set to launch into space on a H3 rocket from the Tanegashima Space Center at 04:41 JST on 20 October 2026 (20:41 BST / 21:41 CEST on 19 October 2026). MMX will be the first mission to collect a sample from Mars’s moon Phobos and bring it back to…
The CERN Pension Fund is pleased to announce the upcoming launch of MyPension, its new online portal. Designed to simplify your administrative procedures and improve your experience, MyPension will provide easy access to your pension information and allow you to interact with the Pension Fund more…
Mallory J. Kinczyk et al 2026 Planet. Sci. J. 7 182 The Gelato mission would collect a sample from the surface of the comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, gathering material that, unlike coma materials collected in previous missions, is relatively unprocessed.
NASA has taken the next step in the process of developing a new all-glass telescope for the LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) mission, a space observatory designed to detect ripples in space-time called gravitational waves.
The European Space Agency-led Solar Orbiter spacecraft has flown through an S-shaped kink known as a ‘switchback’ in the solar wind’s magnetic field. By fingerprinting the elusive particles within the switchback, Solar Orbiter has traced its origin back to the Sun’s surface and revealed more about…
Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi'nin (ODTÜ) Ay yüzeyinde yürüyecek mikro keşif aracı CHERI'nin 2030'da fırlatılması planlanıyor.
77. Uluslararası Uzay Kongresi için Antalya'ya gelen astronotlar, Aksu Uçak Bakım Teknolojisi Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi öğrencileriyle bir araya geldi.
77. Uluslararası Uzay Kongresi'nde, ABD Havacılık ve Uzay Ajansı (NASA) tarafından Artemis II misyonuyla Ay bilimine dair elde edilen ön bulgular yayımlandı.
Six satellites, each the size of a toaster oven, will operate as a single giant radio dish to study the Sun.
Sunlight illuminates wind-carved cliffs in a dramatic new image.
TUSAŞ Genel Müdürü Mehmet Demiroğlu, HÜRSAT-1 uydusunun gelecek yılın ortalarında, HÜRSAT-2'nin de ROKETSAN'ın ŞİMŞEK-1 roketiyle 2028-2029 bandında fırlatılmasının planlandığını açıkladı.
TUSAŞ ve ROKETSAN, HÜRSAT-2 proje sözleşmesini 77. Uluslararası Uzay Kongresi (IAC) kapsamında Antalya'da imzaladı.
ASELSAN Genel Müdürü Ahmet Akyol, Antalya 77. Uluslararası Uzay Kongresi'nde TRT Haber'in soruları yanıtladı. Akyol, “200’e yakın takım uydu olarak uzayda görev yapacak GÖKBAĞI projemizin uydusunun gerçek halini ilk defa gösteriyoruz.” dedi.
NASA ve SpaceX, Uluslararası Uzay İstasyonu'na (ISS) dört astronot taşıyacak olan Crew-13 misyonunu fırlatmaya hazırlanıyor. Florida'daki Cape Canaveral Uzay Kuvvetleri İstasyonu'ndaki Fırlatma Kompleksi 40'tan gerçekleştirilmesi planlanan uçuşun, istasyona dokuz saatten kısa bir sürede ulaşması…
On 23 September, the European-Chinese Smile mission was declared ready to start revealing how Earth responds to the wind of charged particles from the Sun. This follows a busy in-space commissioning period since the spacecraft launched on 19 May and reached its target orbit for science operations…
İngiltere, uzaydaki uydularını korumak için askeri filo kuruyor. Filo, uydulara yönelik saldırılara karşı savunma ve cay...
By studying radiant energy that only emerges in the far-infrared, PRIMA will address a wide range of questions about the universe.
Video: 02:31:10 Watch the replay of the livestream originally broadcast on 3 September as ESA/JAXA's BepiColombo mission took the first critical step towards arriving at Mercury. After travelling through the inner Solar System together for eight years, BepiColombo's Mercury Transfer Module (MTM)…
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