Space week

Saturn's 'Death Star' moon has a hidden secret - a subsurface ocean

Mimas is the seventh-largest moon of Saturn, which all told has well over 100 moons ranging from Titan - larger than the planet Mercury - to some only the size of a city block.

 Saturn's moon Mimas is seen in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft
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Space is full of 200 tons of garbage. Now what?

Eytan Stibbe at the President’s Residence

Israel’s second astronaut - the dawn of a new tomorrow

(From left) NASA astronauts Eric Boe, Donald Thomas and Mark Vande Hei participate in Israeli Space Week

Remembering the Ramons: Space Week brings NASA astronauts to Israel


‘Beresheet’ to launch tonight, propelling Israel to the moon

This will make Israel only the fourth country to land on the Moon, after the former USSR, the US and China. It will be the first such space capsule to land on the moon due to a private initiative.

 Beresheet is loaded onto its launcher,  Falcon-9 before its launch into space Thursday night

Globular clusters found in the Milky Way

These three new clusters are noteworthy due to their age and deficiencies in metal-like substances.

An example of a globular cluster, Omega Centauri (NGC 5139) in the constellation of Centaurus.

American astronaut visiting Israel for Space Week

"From space we do not see the earth with political borders," said Kelly, who holds the record for most space flights for an American astronaut.

American astronaut Scott Kelly and Minister of Science and Technology Ofir Akunis at the opening of Space Week

[PODCAST] 'Little Spacecraft' wants to motivate Israeli youth around space

Author-scientist team up with SpaceIL to create children's book.

Dr. Yael Schuster, cofounder of StellarNova with her new book The Little Spacecraft

'Space Week' launches in Israel next week

The theme of this year's "Space Week" will be to commemorate 50 years since man first landed on the moon.

Israel Museum during Space Week

Fly me to the moon: NASA boost for first Israeli lunar lander

Ido Anteby, SpaceIL's CEO stands in front of an unmanned spacecraft which an Israeli team plans to launch into space at the end of the year and to land it on the Moon next year, in Yahud, Israel.

World Space Week set to touch down in Israel

The events held in Israel are sponsored under a UN World Space Week Initiative, made up of around 50 countries, Israel being one of the countries taking part in the initiative.

CHEF HAIM COHEN tries to make a falafel in a reenactment of space for the Science and Technology Ministry’s Space Week activities, which are launched on January 28, 2018..

Holocaust-era drawing Ilan Ramon took to space going up again

Thursday would have been the 90th birthday of Ginz, who was killed in Auschwitz at the age of 16.

Rona Ramon holding a picture of Ilan Ramon with a copy of the "Moon Landscape" before his mission to space in 2003; also in the picture NASA Astronaut Tom Marsburn and his wife Ann, who are attending the Israel Space Week events.

Liberal groups to hold alternative 'Space Week' in Jerusalem

Cancellation of public events due to haredi pressure spurs NGOs into action.

Mahaneh Yehuda by night