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On July 6, 2017, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image of sunglint on the waters around Crete and the Aegean Islands. The phenomenon of sunglint is a matter of optics. Areas where the...

For the second time, Greek photographer Alexandros Maragos has had one of his photos selected as the photo of the day by NASA! Maragos, an Athens-based filmmaker and photographer captured the Greek sky over Patras in a unique scientifically explained...

American astronaut Robert S. Kimbrough on Monday afternoon sent a "good evening" to Athens from the International Space Station. The U.S. astronaut also put two photographs of Athens from very high above in his personal account on Twitter. Kimbrough was selected...

 NASA has released a satellite picture showing the smoke from the destructive Chios fire reaching all the way to south of Crete. The fire has destroyed the mastic trees in the villages of Elata, Vessa and Lithi. According to the president...

The oldest olive tree at Vouves, a village 30km west of Chania, is 2,000 years old. Its branches were used during the Athens Olympic Games 2004 and during the Beijing Olympics in 2008. An astro-photographer from Chania, Christos Kotsaftis, photographed...

Greece is undoubtedly one of the greatest places on Earth to witness the amazing galactic phenomenon, the Milky Way. Located in the Northern Hemisphere, the Milky Way appears in the southern half night of the night sky like a strip of...

NASA Space Apps Challenge, the biggest event for the development of innovative and space oriented ideas, is back in Cyprus for the fourth consecutive year. Last year, one of the winning teams of the Space Apps Challenge Limassol 2015, “ArachnoBeeA”,...

Although it may look like a lighthouse, the rays of light near the horizon actually emanate from the Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion, Greece. Some temple lights are even reflected in the Aegean Sea in the foreground. In spite...

The three Cypriot winner projects of the Limassol Space Apps Challenge will head for the international competition of space applications organized by NASA. The International Space Apps Challenge is an international mass collaboration focused on space exploration that takes place...

Dr Athena Coustenis studied English literature because her father wanted her to study something that would ensure a job in case she couldn’t find work as a physicist. Towards the end of her studies, she met Daniel Gautier, who...