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.

‣ AREAS

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

‣ News

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THURSDAY 07 DECEMBER 2023

Los Angeles from the PRISMA satellite   ‣

This composition is obtained from the processing of an acquisition of PRISMA satellite dated July 2020 MORE...

FRIDAY 01 DECEMBER 2023

ASI – Italian Space Agency upgrades access to MapItaly data ‣

Downloading of COSMO-SkyMed constellation images has never been so easy MORE...

FRIDAY 24 NOVEMBER 2023

The Namib desert from space ‣

A picture by PRISMA MORE...

THURSDAY 16 NOVEMBER 2023

KENYA DELEGATION VISITS ITALY ‣

The official visit to Italy was promoted and organized by the Embassy of the Republic of Kenya in Italy on the occasion of the first meeting of the Joint Council of Ministers MORE...

WEDNESDAY 15 NOVEMBER 2023

LUCA VINCENZO MARIA SALAMONE, ASI’S NEW DIRECTOR GENERAL,TAKES OFFICE ‣

The Board of Directors appointed the Agency's new Director General on Oct. 10 last MORE...