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An international team of astronomers, including researchers with the Romanian Academy’s Astronomic Institute of Bucharest, used the data obtained by the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) of the European Southern Observatory to catalogue 40,000 minor planets of the Solar System, informs a Romanian Space Agency release. These minor planets with sizes between […]

Norwegian shipping company GC Rieber announced on Wednesday that its subsidiary Dolphin Geophysical has won a contract to perform 3D seismic surveys in the Romanian Black Sea area, informs a press release. The contract, awarded by Black Sea Oil and Gas company, spans on a period of 45 days, and the ship that will carry […]

President Klaus Iohannis received on Tuesday at the Cotroceni Palace Romania’s first space traveler Dumitru Prunariu     (photo L)  accompanied by a delegation of astronauts and cosmonauts, on the occasion of the celebration of 35 years since the first space flight of a Romanian. According to a Presidential Administration release, President Iohannis stressed the importance of […]

Over 50 young people have participated on Saturday and Sunday, in Cluj, in a competition organised by NASA – Space Apps Challenge – , and the best of them will enter the global judging phase with their projects likely to be adopted by the space agency. Event spokesperson Maria Rednic told Agerpres on Saturday that […]

European Commissioner Corina Cretu (Regional Policy) has approved on Friday the amendment of the Extreme Light Infrastructure – Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP) research project in Magurele, Romania, her cabinet announced in a media release. The decision approves a new calendar of construction works and equipment installation, the inclusion of auxiliary buildings in the second implementation phase […]