ASI|Agenzia Spaziale Italiana

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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SOLAR SYSTEM AND BEYOND ‣

From Mercury, Mars and Jupiter to asteroids and exoplanets

HIGH ENERGIES ‣

The study of the most powerful phenomena in the Universe

epa05154649 A undated handout graphic, made available 11 February 2016 by NASA / CALTECH-JPL, showing an artist's impression of gravitational waves generated by binary neutron stars. US researchers said 11 February 2016 they have detected gravitational waves, which physicist Albert Einstein first described 100 years ago as 'ripples in the fabric of space-time.' Scientists from Caltech and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) made the announcement in Washington and other locations around the world. There were immediate suggestions that the discovery could well win them the Nobel Prize in Physics. The signal detected with LIGO, an observatory with sites on both sides of the United States, was very clear and there was no room for doubt that it was direct evidence of the waves, said Bruce Allen, who is acting director at Germany's Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics. He said two scientists with his group in the northern German city of Hanover were the first to notice the effect. The announcement may confirm Albert Einstein's last unproven theory, dating from 1916. EPA/R. HURT / CALTECH-JPL / HANDOUT HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY

Cosmology ‣

The study of the primordial Universe and gravitation laws

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MONDAY 21 SEPTEMBER 2026

Italy confirmed as chair of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space ‣

The chairmanship of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) has been entrusted to Ambassador Mario Cospito, Special Commissioner of the Italian Space Agency MORE...

THURSDAY 16 JULY 2026

The Italian Space Agency announces the passing of President Teodoro Valente ‣