Poland has committed €656 million to the European Union's IRIS² satellite constellation, securing a major role in the bloc's strategic satellite communications system.
Poland is joining the race to develop spacecraft that can repair, refuel and protect satellites in orbit, with the country preparing to build its first unmanned servicing vehicle.
Polish scientists have joined a European Space Agency (ESA) project to develop a quantum sensor capable of measuring Earth's magnetic field from orbit with unprecedented precision.
Scientists in Poland have identified where the first tree could grow on Mars - and it is not where many researchers expected.
Scientists in Poland have shown that simulated space conditions can make drug-resistant cancer cells more vulnerable to chemotherapy, a discovery that could help researchers develop more effective cancer treatments.
The European Space Agency has selected Warsaw to host its newest centre, making the Polish capital the first city outside the agency's founding member states to house one of its flagship facilities.
Most of the energy that reaches Earth comes from nuclear fusion in the Sun. Can a similar process be controlled on Earth? The results of the MAST Upgrade programme, involving Polish physicists from Warsaw and Opole, demonstrate just how challenging that task remains.
Polish scientists have begun analysing drug samples that spent 14 months aboard the International Space Station to determine whether medicines can survive the harsh radiation of future missions to the Moon and Mars.
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has begun a decade-long survey of the southern sky expected to transform astronomy, with Polish scientists playing a key role in analysing what will become the most comprehensive cinematic record of the Universe ever created.