Artemis II completed a 10-day journey around the Moon, carrying humanity farther into space than it has gone in over 50 years.

ESA played a critical role in the mission’s success. The European Service Module powered and sustained Orion throughout the journey, providing propulsion, power, water and breathable air for the crew.

Mostly built with contributions from 13 ESA Member States—Germany, Italy, France, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Austria, the United Kingdom and Luxembourg—the module represents Europe’s strength in international cooperation.

Looking ahead, ESA will continue to deliver on its commitments to the Artemis programme while advancing

A once-in-a-century solar storm could cripple power grids, destroy satellites, and knock out GPS navigation systems for days — and the U.K. government has now quantified what that would cost. The U.K.’s most recent National Risk Register rates severe space weather as one of the highest-impact threats facing the country, alongside pandemics and cyberattacks, and […]

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The people who stay calm during emergencies aren't fearless — they've learned to defer their terror. Research from space psychology and trauma studies reveals that this composure comes at a steep cost, often surfacing months later as anxiety, sensory disruption, and emotional withdrawal.

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The conventional wisdom about the Voyager program is that it represents a triumphant past: two spacecraft launched in 1977, a grand tour of the outer planets, a golden record, and

The post The complete story of Voyager’s interstellar mission: how two spacecraft built in the 1970s are still rewriting what we know about the boundary between our solar system and everything else appeared first on Space Daily.

ESA’s Proba-3 mission has reportedly delivered its first scientific results, and the data has caught solar physicists off guard. The twin-satellite formation, designed to create artificial solar eclipses in orbit, measured solar wind speeds in the sun’s inner corona that were significantly faster than models predicted. The finding, announced by ESA, marks the first scientific […]

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When reliability becomes identity, the person underneath slowly disappears. Research on caregivers, astronaut crews, and isolation psychology reveals how being the dependable one in every group replaces who you are with what you provide.

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On April 13, 2026, President Donald Trump launched a blistering public attack on Pope Leo XIV, accusing the pontiff of meddling in geopolitics and being “terrible for foreign policy” after the Pope condemned U.S. military threats and called for a return to negotiations over the escalating conflict in the Middle East. The clash between the […]

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Since July 2025, the European Space Agency’s pair of Proba-3 satellites has already created 57 artificial solar eclipses. So far, the mission has collected more than 250 hours of high-resolution videos of the Sun’s atmosphere, called the corona. That’s the same amount of observing time as about 5000 total solar eclipse campaigns carried out on Earth.  

But the science is even more exciting. For the first time we can carefully track how material from the Sun moves through the inner corona, where space weather is born. The first results, recently published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, show that solar wind structures in the inner corona can travel three to four times faster than scientists thought. 

The chairman of the Senate appropriations subcommittee that funds NASA says he opposes proposed cuts to part of NASA’s budget and will seek to fund the agency at 2026 levels.