China's Moon exploration program is an ambitious one. Within 17 years, the Chinese space agency has sent six probes to the Moon with human missions awaiting excution:

#ScienceSunday 🌠 Get ready for the Perseids! One of the year's best meteor showers peaks soon, with up to 100 shooting stars per hour. No telescope needed — just look up and enjoy the cosmic show: ☄️ #Perseids #MeteorShower #Stargazing.📷Tomáš Slovinsky

Martian rock glaciers seem to have a higher water (more spcifically ice) content than previously thought:

🚀 The Hypogravity VTF Study is underway! Volunteers like Leon Deutsch & Benjamin Reimeier are running in simulated lunar/Martian gravity to help us understand movement & breathing in space. In collab with @meduniwien @medunigraz under @esa CORA. #SpaceResearch #Hypogravity #VTF

🚀 Strategic planning meets Vienna's skyline – our OeWF board convened last weekend.We're fully energized with new ideas for exciting projects and collaborations ahead. @olidax. #oewf #25years

Nicht verpassen: Astronaut Chris Hadfield live in Wien! .Am 10.12.2025 ist Colonel Chris Hadfield bei Globe Wien in der Marx Halle und hält seinen Vortrag: "A Journey into the Cosmos". Mit wem wollt ihr hin? Tagt die Person und erhaltet einen 10% Rabatt Code zugeschickt! 🚀

Lift-off: Neue Folge online! 🚀.Während des Open Space Day im Suitlab am 19. Juli aufgenommen, erwartet euch jetzt eine brandneue Folge des Lift-off Podcasts – direkt aus dem Herzen der Weltraumforschung! 📡 .Jetzt reinhören! 🔭.

#MarsMonday 🚀 The European Mars Conference 2025 will take place in Paris in November. 🇫🇷 . ⏰ Important note: The deadline for the call for papers is coming up soon! Don't miss your chance to submit your work: 📷: OeWF/vog.photo #EMC2017 Innsbruck

#ScienceSunday Poland’s mission to the ISS, Ignis, launched 25 Jun 2025. ESA astronaut Sławosz Uznański‑Wiśniewski orbited Earth 230 times in 20 days, executing 60+ experiments—from AI, biotech and materials to mental health—igniting space science and education 🚀.📷NASA

At the arctic circle, a stratospheric balloon successfully dropped a mock-up of the #ExoMars landing platform. The Rosalind Franklin rover will land on Mars with the largest parachute ever used outsid Earth:

Mission accomplished! 🚀.This July, we teamed up with the to host an unforgettable space workshop for young explorers. From being inside a space suit, to piloting a Mars rover and experiencing the scent of Venus - you were stellar! 🌟.📸 Swipe for highlights!

The JunoCam on the #Juno spacecraft in orbit around #Jupiter has suffered after years of exposure to the giant planet's intense radiation. Engineers found a way to solve it, but it's not lasting:

Imaging methods have made strong progress over the decades and changed how we see Mars quite a bit:

AstroAid's Advisory Board met this week — hosted by our amazing colleague Ahmed Baraka in Egypt 🇪🇬! Our Director Gernot Grömer represented Austria 🇦🇹. With its 1st birthday next month, the foundation is already driving global impact — from Innsbruck to Cairo! 🚀🌎 #SpaceForHealth

🚀 Buchtipp 📚 Unsere Analog-Astronautin, Dr. Anika Mehlis 🧑‍🚀, hat ein wundervolles Buch geschrieben, das ab sofort vorbestellt werden kann – inklusive persönlicher Signatur! ✍️✨😍. Sichert euch ein Exemplar! 📚 Mehr Infos und Vorbestellungen hier ➡️

🚀 Unique Opportunity to Volunteer for Hypogravity Research! Are you a sports enthusiast based in or near Innsbruck, aged between 18 and 55, and interested in contributing to cutting-edge space research? Check out our poster and drop us a message ⬇️. #ESA #VerticalTreadmill

#Curiosity rover blog: The rover successfully climbed a 11m ridge and is ready for the next phase in the 'boxwork campaign':

🚀 Das war unser Open Space Day – 43 Sekunden Weltraum-Labor-Luft schnuppern!.Vertical Treadmill, Wasserraketen-Launches, SpacesuitLab u.vm. Die Kids in den Mini-Raumanzügen haben unsere Herzen erobert 🥺❤️. Was war euer Highlight? Kommentiert unten! 👇

Advanced computer modelling and a new look at old data make scientists think, planet Uranus might be actually warmer than previously thought fitting into the line of the other giant planets:

Interesse an der Weltraumforschung? 🔭.Wir bieten viele coole Workshops an! 👩‍🚀.Letztens war es die Tech2Move in Oberösterreich Ende Juni! 🛰️ .Schau doch mal auf unsere Website 👉 .Viel Spaß beim exploren und bis bald! 🚀