Ariane 6 launch pad under construction

The launch pad is 28.5 m deep and 200 m wide, formed with enough concrete to…

ESA Academy’s Technology Transfer & Innovation Workshop

30 highly motivated university students from 13 different ESA Member and Associate States have successfully completed…

Scientists get to the bottom of a ‘spitting’ black hole

Data from ESA’s Integral high-energy observatory have helped shed light on the workings of a mysterious…

Protecting our planet

Asteroid impact 2028: In a fictional dramatisation, ESA has been monitoring an asteroid en route to…

Asteroid impact 2028: Protecting our planet

It’s the year 2028, and the European Space Agency has been carefully monitoring a worrying situation:…

Gaia’s first asteroid discoveries

While scanning the sky to chart a billion stars in our Milky Way galaxy, ESA’s Gaia…

Gaia’s first asteroid discoveries

While scanning the sky to chart a billion stars in our Milky Way galaxy, ESA’s Gaia…

Paxi on the ISS: Moving in space

Our alien friend Paxi, ESA Education’s mascot, went to visit American astronaut Anne McClain on board…

Paxi on the ISS: Moving in space

Our alien friend Paxi, ESA Education's mascot, went to visit American astronaut Anne McClain on board…

Latest Hubble Measurements Suggest Disparity in Hubble Constant Calculations is not a Fluke

Hubble’s measurements of today’s expansion rate do not match the rate that was expected based on…