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NASA Space Apps Challenge, the world’s largest global hackathon, has opened registration for its 14th edition, taking place over the weekend of October 4–5, 2025, in Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, and hundreds of other cities worldwide. So far,…

George Simion stated that scientists should decide whether the earth is flat or spherical. The AUR president promises Romanians, when asked about dinosaurs and aliens, that he will declassify all the hidden truths, if necessary, when he…

On the first day of the year, the Romanian sky was colored by the aurora borealis, with spectacular shades of red and purple. The rare phenomenon, usually found in the northern regions, was visible in several areas of the country,…

On October 7, 2024, at 17:52 (Romanian local time), the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the European Space Agency (ESA) Hera mission. On board, several technologies designed in Romania travel: part of the brain of the mission that analyzes…

Interns participating in the Office of Naval Research's (ONR) Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program (NREIP) assigned to Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) San Antonio, seized the opportunity to hear from Romanian-born Lt. Anca…

NASA Earth's Landsat 8 satellite recently captured the golden rapeseed fields in southern Romania, in the area where the Olt River meets the Danube. Green agricultural fields in southern Romania became tinged with yellow as rows…

The local edition of the NASA International Space Apps Challenge, the world's largest hackathon, takes place this weekend, on October the 7th - 8th, with Romania ranking sixth in Europe, with approximately 170 participants. The mission…

Eight Romanian students impressed the NASA specialists with their project for a house of the future. They won the US space agency's annual contest, but they don't have the money to go and collect their prize. The Romanian students'…

On 27 September, 2:14 Romania local time, NASA's DART component of the international AIDA mission was confirmed to have intentionally collided with the smallest asteroid in the Didymos binary system. ESA will send its own mission to the two…

What will happen to humanity if an asteroid hits Earth again? Will we suffer the same fate as the dinosaurs or will we be able to avoid disaster? This year sees the first international effort to deflect an asteroid's trajectory, and Romania…