☄️🌌 Comet 3I/ATLAS & the role of the International Asteroid Warning Network and the UN! While posing no threat to Earth, interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS offers a fantastic opportunity for the International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN) community to conduct an observing exercise.

🌌♻️ COPUOS & UNOOSA’s leadership on #SpaceSustainability were centre stage at the Secure World Foundation Space Sustainability Summit in Paris.

“When 80 years old you reach… look this good, you will not.”
🎂Happy 80th Birthday to the United Nations!🥳

🚀🌍 Help shape the future of safe and sustainable space!

UNOOSA invites you to contribute to the Long-Term Sustainability of Outer Space Activities (LTS) Information Repository— a global platform for sharing practices, policies, and innovations that enhance the safety and sustainability of space operations.

🛩☄️👨✈️A commercial airliner saw its cockpit windshield shattered by a high-altitude impact, injuring the pilot. This incident is a chilling reminder of the risks we face.

☄️☄️🌍😱 On October 20–21, 2025, two comets — C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) and C/2025 R2 (SWAN) — will light up the night sky ✨ While they pose absolutely no danger to Earth, this will be a rare cosmic double feature!

🇨🇭🇺🇳🌌🌏 Hot off the heels of the IAC 2025 Sydney, we are in Geneva to meet with the Ambassadors of the Pacific Islands Forum (Nauru 🇳🇷, Marshall Islands 🇲🇭, Samoa 🇼🇸, Kiribati 🇰🇮, the Federated States of Micronesia 🇫🇲, Vanuatu 🇻🇺, Australia 🇦🇺, New Zealand, Papa New Guinea 🇵🇬 and Fiji 🇫🇯) to reinforce the message that space can benefit the Pacific and that UNOOSA is committed to a sustained partnership, to ensure small island States have a voice in space governance and to support the islands in accessing space solutions for tackling illegal, unreported, unregulated fishing, mitigating the impact of climate change, creating digital twins for island nations that can support disaster risk reduction plans, and so much more.

🌍 How is space protecting the “green lung” of our planet? Join us to find out!