An adventure started over 500 years ago, in which Italy played and still plays a leading role 

From Galileo’s telescope to the conquer of space with the launch, in 1957, of the Sputnik, the first man-made object to reach Earth orbit. In the following decades, the launch into space of probes and satellites allowed to explore our planetary system up to its extreme borders and to study deep space as telescopes from Earth would have never been able to do.

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From Mercury, Mars and Jupiter to asteroids and exoplanets

The study of the most powerful phenomena in the Universe

The study of the primordial Universe and gravitation laws

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FRIDAY 08 AUGUST 2025

SPACE, ARGOTEC DEVELOPS CURIE: THE ELECTRIC HEART THAT WILL CARRY SATELLITES TO UNEXPLORED CORNERS OF THE UNIVERSE ‣

Unveiled at SmallSat, the Curie Power Suite will support missions like HENON, a program funded by the Italian Space Agency and with the support of the European Space Agency, which will travel to an unexplored orbit between the Earth and the Sun to study Space Weather MORE...

TUESDAY 15 JULY 2025

The 2025 Giuseppe and Vanna Cocconi Prize to the Fermi-LAT collaboration ‣

The award was formally presented at the EPS Conference on High Energy Physics MORE...

THURSDAY 05 JUNE 2025

ESA’s new asteroid hunter opens its eye to the sky ‣

The Flyeye telescope will soon be transported to Monte Mufara, in Sicily MORE...

MONDAY 12 MAY 2025

PRISMA detects the gas flares in Venezuela ‣

The PRISMA mission detects hot spot signals from space in a night image

TUESDAY 22 APRIL 2025

Earth Day – Celebrate it with a “Your Turn” on Instagram ‣

April 22 celebrates world earth day MORE...