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16.09.2026 Over the next couple of days, we will publish a series of pictorial overviews of Europe’s largest lifting equipment event, Vertikal Days.Here is the first:…

The Richat Structure (also known as the “Eye of Africa” in Mauritania in Africa as photographed by NASA astronaut Jessica Meir from aboard the International Space…

ESA’s Plato spacecraft completes critical testing ahead of its spaceflight. (Image credit: ESA – R. Moorkens O’Reilly)A planet-hunting spacecraft named Plato just passed a series of…

The Gemini South Observatory shoots out a beam of light. (Image credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Horálek)A laser star guide beams up from the Gemini South Observatory…

The Southern Patagonian Icefield as seen from the International Space Station. (Image credit: NASA)Fragments of ice splintered from a glacier float down an Antarctic lake in…

NASA astronaut Jessica Meir captured an incredible view of auroras over Earth on June 6, 2026. (Image credit: NASA/Jessica Meir)NASA astronaut Jessica Meir captured a breathtaking…

09.06.2026 The Vertikal team was on the ground last week at the Apex trade show, meeting exhibitors and visitors throughout the event. Held once every three…

A meteor streaks across the sky above the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Kitt Peak National Observatory in southern Arizona. (Image credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Horálek (Institute of Physics…

It’s only been a month since NASA’s Artemis 2 astronauts splashed down in the Pacific Ocean to wrap up their 10-mission around the moon, and the…

(Image credit: ESA-SJM Photography)Is it cake? No, but it’s baked to perfection.In this donut-shaped bag is a massive parachute. And just like the confection it appears…