Some day in the future, an asteroid might be detected heading toward our home planet. What…
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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…