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What the ESA Gaia mission discovered
[Strap] The Gaia telescope has spent the more than a decade surveying our home Galaxy to the highest precision yet. Its career will lead to new discoveries about the Milky Way and its neighbours for years to come.
European Space Agency will beam the famous '2001: A Space Odyssey' waltz out into the cosmos
European Space Agency's biggest missions
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Interview | ESA parastronaut John McFall
Meet the UK's newest astronaut. Rosemary Coogan on astronaut training and humanity's return to the Moon
Interview with Rosemary Coogen, the UK's newest ESA astronaut.
UK astronaut Rosemary Coogan graduates astronaut training, and could soon be bound for the ISS
European Space Agency calls for new astronaut applicants
Have you ever dreamed of being an astronaut? The European Space Agency is looking for the next generation of crew for long-duration and complex space missions.
Radio Astronomy Podcast | Deflecting asteroids with Hera and DART
The latest episode of the Radio Astronomy podcast, where we look at how to deflect a deadly asteroid impact.
The biggest European Space Agency missions of the coming decade
ESA is due to play a leading role in exploration of the Moon, Solar System and the deeper Universe over the next 10 years.
Radio Astronomy Podcast | Europe in space: the next decade
Listen to the latest podcast from the makers of BBC Sky at Night Magazine.
Tim Peake's Soyuz capsule returns to Science Museum, London
After a tour of the UK, Tim Peake's Soyuz space capsule has returned to it's permanent home in the Science Museum, London. The ESA astronaut flew to the International Space Station in 2015.
ESA's Gaia: mapping the Milky Way
The European Space Agency's Gaia mission is revealing the past galaxy mergers that have influenced the Milky Way's evolution.
Interview | Former NASA scientist David Baker
We speak to former NASA scientist of the Apollo era David Baker about the space race and putting humans on the Moon.
ARIEL: ESA's new exoplanet-hunting mission
The ARIEL mission will investigate the atmospheres of exoplanets. The project will be led and planned within the UK.
AIM: the mission to deflect an asteroid
ESA and NASA are collaborating on a future mission to examine how asteroids might be deflected away from Earth.
Giotto: 30 years on
Three decades ago ESA's first deep space probe flew past one of the most well known objects in the Solar System, Halley's Comet
An Hour On The Moon
BBC Sky at Night Magazine attends the first annual Colin Pilinger memorial talk.
ESA's Gaia celebrates its first year observing
Gaia will monitor a billion stars over five years. Already the mission has detected supernovae and extreme binary systems.
A history of ESA mission patches
Take some inspiration from our gallery of past ESA space patches
ESA's Venus Express begins its descent
The spacecraft will pass closer to the planet’s hostile surface than ever before.
ESA test drive Mars rover in the Atacama Desert
The rover has an array of scientific intruments onboard
Sun sets over ESA's Antarctic Concordia lab
ESA's Antarctic Concordia lab will now operate in complete darkness until August
Envisat's mission over after 10 years spent in orbit
Contact with the satellite was lost in April