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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...

The meteor shower named Perseid, during which up to 100 shooting stars will fall per hour,  takes place on August 12, before dawn, and will be seen from Greece as well. The Perseids begin as tiny specks of dust that...

Astronomers, including Kostas Gourgouliatos, of McGill University in Montreal, have discovered for the first time a strange and unexplained phenomenon: a very dense and rapidly rotating neutron star (pulsar), which abruptly slowed its speed, something that has never been...

Many Greeks around the world will never forget the moment when Yurchikhin, the first cosmonaut of Greek descent, brought on 8 January 2003 to the then president of the Hellenic Republic, the Greek  flag he had with him on...

Seventeen-year-old Angelica Maria Meros from Argos, a city in the Argolis prefecture of the Peloponnese, is the winner of an international animation competition organized by NASA, Humans in Space - Youth Art Competition. Angelica-Maria created a human-robot which would explore...