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NASA has published a photo taken of the Perseids meteor shower by a Greek photographer near the town of Kalavrita, Peloponnese. The American space agency posted the image by Andreas Messinis on its official Facebook page. "A magic night viewing the...

  Greece has honored the first cosmonaut of Greek origin, Fyodor Yurchikhin Grammatikopoulos, who sent a message to the country's children to "not be afraid to have big dreams". Sunday's ceremony took place at the northern city's Royal Theater with several...

A Greek engineer is at the forefront of plans to re-design the supersonic Concorde jet which could cut transatlantic journeys to just 3.5 hours. Lockheed Martin’s Peter Iossifidis currently collaborates with NASA to revolutionize the supersonic aircraft so as to...

Since the beginning of time, people have turned their eyes to the sky and discerned the shapes of animals and objects in the stars.

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...