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.
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
TUESDAY 06 OCTOBER 2026
On 15 September, SIMBIO-SYS, the instrument designed to image and study f Mercury’s surface and developed with a major Italian contribution through the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and the National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), successfully completed its first acquisitions in its final configuration MORE...
FRIDAY 02 OCTOBER 2026
Satellite data, new technologies, and international cooperation to improve prevention and management of natural hazards MORE...
MONDAY 21 SEPTEMBER 2026
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
