CERN engineer Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski, now an ESA astronaut, has just taken off for the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center

Former CERN engineer Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski, now an ESA astronaut, will take off aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center

After more than a decade in space, the AMS detector on the ISS is due for another upgrade. With its augmented potential for discovery, it will be able to investigate dark-matter-like signatures from cosmic rays

Astronaut Thomas Pesquet has activated Lumina, an optical fibre-based dosimetry experiment on board the International Space Station

The third spacewalk will see astronauts Luca Parmitano and Andrew Morgan install the new cooling pump system for the AMS detector tracker

Watch the first of several spacewalks for AMS live on Friday 15 November from 12.50 p.m. CET

Having docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on 25 August 2015, CALET is carrying out a full science programme

An out-of-this world visit took place at CERN on 12 May

The 200th ISS spacewalk included a new installation on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS)

On Friday 12 May at 4:30pm CEST, we will be live on Facebook, from the CERN Data Centre, with three European astronauts answering your questions

Astronaut Tim Peake is on the International Space Station with a Timepix chip from the CERN@School project

The CALorimetric Electron Telescope reached the ISS on 24 August. It will perform long-exposure observations of high-energy cosmic radiation