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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TUESDAY 02 JULY 2024

The Italian Space Agency at the International Space Forum 2024 ‣

The event was hosted in Manama, the capital of the Kingdom of Bahrain, on July 2nd MORE...

TUESDAY 02 JULY 2024

Il Bahrain ospita la sesta edizione dell’International Space Forum ‣

Il Forum riunisce ogni anno agenzie spaziali, centri di ricerca e rappresentanti delle accademie
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MONDAY 22 APRIL 2024

PRISMA for the 2024 Earth day – April 22nd ‣

Far East islands observed by PRISMA

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TUESDAY 02 APRIL 2024

STRAIGHT TO THE NORTH POLE WITHOUT LOSING YOUR WAY, THANKS TO THE ITALIAN COSMO-SKYMED CONSTELLATION ‣

The eyes of the Italian Space Agency satellites traced the path of the Transglobal Car Expedition while it’s moving to the Arctic stage, providing an image a day to orient explorers in the circumnavigation of the Earth MORE...

WEDNESDAY 14 FEBRUARY 2024

Ready, set, go! Euclid begins its dark Universe survey ‣

ASI - Agenzia Spaziale Italiana

Today, ESA’s space telescope Euclid begins its survey of the dark Universe. Over the next six years, Euclid will observe billions of galaxies across 10 billion years of cosmic history. Learn how the team prepared Euclid in the months after launch for this gigantic cosmic quest. 

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