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A strange phenomenon occurred in the skies of Alaska early last Saturday, surprising those who were observing the Northern lights. For a brief moment, a spiral of light blue color resembling a galaxy appeared alongside the aurora. The spiral was...

Apple introduced new iPhone 14 models on Wednesday capable of using satellites to send emergency messages and an adventure-focused Ultra Watch for sports like diving and triathlons. The new handsets are capable of sending an emergency call for help via...

Ukraine has called up the country’s reservists and asked its citizens to leave Russia "immediately" after Russia invaded the eastern part of the country on Monday. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned that Ukraine could face a battle for its very existence,...

NASA recorded the first-ever images of Venus's surface. The space agency's Parker Solar Probe captured the radiating glow of the planet's clouds, offering a glimpse of the composition of the planet. NASA used the Wide-field Imager for Parker Solar Probe...

The launch of Turkey's SpaceX Turksat 5B satellite in the second quarter of 2021 is raising concerns by NGO's in the US. The Hellenic American Leadership Council and the Armenian National Committee of America signed a joint letter to the...

Satellite images of Kineta, the town in Attica which has suffered so greatly from extensive flooding since Monday, depict the extent of the catastrophe that struck the area. The images come from the European Sentinel-2 satellite, part of the European Union's...

The European rocket Ariane 5 launched the new "Hellas-Sat-4/SaudiGeoSat" telecommunications satellite into space on Tuesday from the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Weighing 6,495 kg (14,319 pounds), the new satellite will provide telecommunications capabilities, including television, Internet, telephone and secure communications, in...

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...

The Laboratory of Electromagnetic Theory of the Democritus University of Thrace / Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has been selected to join the QB50 European initiative for the launch of a swarm of nano-satellites to investigate the upper...

Greece΄s biggest telecoms operator OTE said on Thursday it agreed to sell its satellite unit Hellas SAT to Saudi Arabia-based Arabsat for 208 million euros as part of measures to cut its debt. OTE, managed and partly-owned by Germany΄s Deutsche...