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Breath-taking photos from space capture planet Earth in all its splendid beauty

The winning photo shows the area on Canada's border with Greenland by Adam Wasilewski. Creodias/Adam Wasilewski

The competition organised by Warsaw company CloudFerro set out to identify the most beautiful images of the Earth.

Astronomers discover smallest rogue planet in the galaxy

To locate the free-floating planet, a team of international astronomers led by those from the University of Warsaw’s OGLE team at the Astronomical Observatory used an astronomical phenomenon called gravitational microlensing.

Making the cut: Polish engineer named in group of innovators pushing the barriers of science and space.

Named as one of just 24 people under the age of 24, Torchała joins a select group of young engineers.

Forgotten space pioneer Ary Sternfeld was father of modern aerospace engineering

If it weren’t for the Polish engineer born in a small town northwest of Łódź, World Space Week, annually celebrated by 95 nations from Oct 4th- Oct 10th, probably wouldn’t exist. There may have been space travel, but not as we know it.

Poland holds talks with NASA on space mission projects

The Polish Space Agency (POLSA) is holding talks with NASA on cooperation in building common devices and instruments for space missions and, above all, regarding space exploration, Aleksandra Bukala from POLSA has told PAP.

Stars in her eyes: the woman who wants to blast off into space

TFN speaks to Agnieszka Elwertowska, an analogue Mars mission commander, engineer and IT student, who hopes to become only the second Polish astronaut after Mirosław Hermaszewski.

Law of physics not universal, new research by Polish scientists finds

The discovery could help change the way the universe and the rule of physics are viewed.

New type of pulsating ‘tear drop’ star found 1,500 light years from earth

Discovered by an international team led by the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Centre in Warsaw, the star named HD74423 is estimated to be 1.7 times the mass of the sun.

Fly me TWO the moon! Earth’s moon no longer ‘standing alone’ after astronomers spot mini-moon orbiting the planet

The object called 2020 CD3 and measuring just a few metres in diameter, entered Earth's orbit about three years ago. The ‘mini-moon’ circles the Earth every 47 days but is slipping from Earth’s gravitational pull and in few months will leave us.

Here comes the Sun: Polish instrument on board space craft set to unlock mysteries of giant star

A rocket packing Polish instruments will blast off on February 9 on a one-way mission to the Sun in an effort to answer some of the biggest questions surrounding our system’s star.

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Twin beaks! Mystery surrounds ‘alarming decline’ in Poland’s stork population as scientists admit they are stumped

Scientists carrying out research into the once-a-decade International Stork Census found that in the last 10 years there has been a staggering 35.5 percent drop in stork numbers in southwest Poland.

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‘They stopped being children and became witnesses of terror and violence!’ Archive of postwar drawings reveals children’s harrowing experiences of WWII

Created in 1946 as part of a post-war nationwide school project, the pencil and crayon images obtained by TFN show the full, terrible experience of war from the perspective of children.

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