Maxim Zaitsev

During Space Week in Russia and on the eve of Cosmonautics Day (aka International Day of Human Space Flight), IKI RAS held its traditional open day for schoolchildren, students, and everyone interested in space. This year it was held jointly with the Polytechnic Museum, which prepared an extensive program of events for children and adults — the family festival “It's a Technology Matter: Space”. A recording of the festival’s lecture program is available.

Broadband electromagnetic radiation produced by collisions of charged dust particles was studied by researchers from IKI and their colleagues from MIPT and A. M Obkhov IAP RAS through observations in the Eurasian steppe and laboratory experiments simulating the Martian atmosphere. Their results, obtained for the first time, were confirmed by observations from the Perseverance rover (NASA) on the surface of Mars.

From 27 to 29 August 2025, the final of the nationwide project "Space Expedition of the First 2025" took place in Moscow, with about two hundred schoolchildren and students from 33 regions of the Russian Federation participating. IKI scientists gave lectures for the project participants.

From October 21, more than 150 scientists from Russia and other countries presented their talks on the problems of Mercury, Venus, Mars and Moon studies, as well as giant planets and small bodies, extrasolar planets and astrobiology.