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2024-10-03, 13:30 ESA

Thanks to an ESA-funded project and data from the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission, researchers have revealed seasonal variations in intertidal seagrass across Western Europe and North Africa. As a key ...

2024-10-03, 08:10 Międzynarodowa Stacja Kosmiczna

Dragon spacecraft operations are underway aboard the International Space Station as a new crew gets up to speed with life in microgravity and another crew turns its attention toward returning to ...

2024-10-02, 11:02 ESA

This September saw the completion of a critical milestone for the construction of ESA's new deep space communication antenna in New Norcia, Australia: the lifting of the 122-tonne reflector dish.A ...

2024-10-02, 08:14 Międzynarodowa Stacja Kosmiczna

Expedition 72 Commander Suni Williams and Flight Engineer Butch Wilmore, both NASA astronauts, tried on their SpaceX Dragon pressure suits for the first time on Tuesday with assistance from new ...

2024-10-01, 17:58 Międzynarodowa Stacja Kosmiczna

NASA astronauts Michael Barratt, Matthew Dominick, and Jeanette Epps and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin are returning to Earth after months aboard the International Space Station conducting ...

2024-10-01, 16:26 ESA

New research reveals that dust carried by the wind from southern Africa towards Madagascar triggered the largest phytoplankton bloom in two decades ? and, unusually, this occurred at a time of year ...

2024-10-01, 11:53 ESA

Sand dunes are a familiar sight along beaches and in deserts. While we know how regular sand dunes are formed, much less is known about dunes made of snow. In a new study, scientists have analysed ...

2024-10-01, 08:22 Międzynarodowa Stacja Kosmiczna

NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson will share details of her recent six-month mission aboard the International Space Station in a news conference at 11 a.m. EDT Friday, Oct. 4, at the agency's Johnson ...

2024-10-01, 08:07 Międzynarodowa Stacja Kosmiczna

The seven astronauts and four cosmonauts representing the Expedition 72 crew slept in on Monday working half-a-day during the afternoon following Sunday's arrival of the SpaceX Crew-9 mission.The ...

2024-09-30, 19:20 Międzynarodowa Stacja Kosmiczna

Researchers found that long-duration spaceflight affected the mechanical properties of eye tissues, including reducing the stiffness of tissue around the eyeball. A better understanding of these ...