On July 20, 1969, the world paused to witness an event that would forever alter our perception of our place in space. The Apollo 11 mission's Eagle module, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin aboard, landed on the Moon, marking a turning point in the history of human exploration. As the words
In April of this year, four individuals embarked on a journey to the Moon. This had not happened since 1972, when the Apollo 17 mission, the last of the previous lunar exploration program, was launched in December. Now, in 2026, we can finally say that the Artemis Program has begun, starting wi
Vast, the American company developing the commercial space station Haven-1, announced on April 10th the appointment of Giorgio Saccoccia as its President for Europe. He will be the company's first executive based in Europe and will be tasked with leading its European presence, collaborating wi
The PoET (Paranal solar ESPRESSO Telescope) solar telescope, installed at the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Paranal Observatory in Chile's Atacama Desert, has conducted its initial observations. This milestone, known as first light, marks the commencement of the instrument's operations
After achieving historic milestones like sending humans beyond Earth's orbit for the first time in over five decades and setting a new human distance record from Earth, the Artemis II mission is now facing its most critical phase: re-entry. This moment, as exhilarating as the launch, carries s
The inaugural crewed flight of the Artemis program has achieved one of its most anticipated milestones: a successful lunar flyby, completed during the Italian night between April 6 and 7, 2026. The Orion capsule "Integrity," carrying astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch,
The launch of the SMILE (Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer) mission, a collaborative effort between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), originally scheduled for April 9, 2026, aboard the European Vega-C rocket's VV29 mission, has been
Four days, six hours, and two minutes after its launch, the Artemis II mission crew achieved a critical milestone on their journey to the Moon: entering the lunar sphere of influence. This designates the region of space where the Moon's gravitational pull exerts a greater influence on the Orio
On April 4, 2026, at 1:46 AM local time (7:46 AM Italian time), a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. On board were 29 satellites for Amazon's Project Kuiper constellation, for the LA-05 (Leo Atlas 5) mission. With this latest deployment, th
Il 3 aprile 2026, alle 6:17 italiane, la startup privata cinese Space Pioneer ha effettuato il volo inaugurale del suo razzo Tianlong-3. Purtroppo, la missione si è conclusa con un fallimento a causa di un problema verificatosi poco dopo il lancio, le cui cause sono ancora sotto indagine.
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is already yielding significant results, even before the official commencement of its scientific observations. In just a month and a half of preliminary data collection, researchers have identified over 11,000 new asteroids (specifically 11,097 of them), submittin
The Artemis II mission has successfully completed a critical phase of its journey: the Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) maneuver. With this main engine burn of the European Service Module (ESM), the Orion "Integrity" capsule departed Earth's orbit and began its trajectory towards the Moon. The