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Podcast icon: Hera hovering over impact crater

Radio Astronomy Podcast Deflecting asteroids with Hera and DART

The European-designed Orion spacecraft (left) will take ESA astronauts to NASA’s Lunar Gateway and beyond. Credit: NASA

The biggest European Space Agency missions of the coming decade

The European Space Agency's JUICE mission

Radio Astronomy Podcast Europe in space: the next decade

Tim Peake floating in the cupola on the ISS.

Tim Peake’s Soyuz capsule returns to Science Museum, London

An artist's impression of the Gaia spacecraft mapping the Milky Way Copyright ESA/ATG medialab; background: ESO/S. Brunier

ESA’s Gaia: mapping the Milky Way

The launch of Apollo 9 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in 1969.
Credit: NASA

Interview Former NASA scientist David Baker

The ARIEL satellite will look for traces of chemicals such as water vapour, carbon dioxide and methane in exoplanet atmospheres. Image Credit: ESA/STFC RAL Space/UCL/Europlanet-Science Office

ARIEL: ESA’s new exoplanet-hunting mission

The AIM spacecraft analyses the moment of impact in infrared. Credit: ESA - ScienceOffice.org

AIM: the mission to deflect an asteroid

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Giotto: 30 years on

Lunar scientist Dr James Carpenter reveals ESA's vision for future travel to and exploration of the Moon at the first Colin Pillinger Memorial Lecture. Image Credit: Philippa Walker/University of Bristol

Film and TV reviews

An Hour On The Moon

The mission has also discovered hundreds of asteroids within our own Solar System. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab; background: ESO/S. Brunier

ESA’s Gaia celebrates its first year observing

A history of ESA mission patches

Venus Express has been orbiting the planet since April 2006. Credit: ESA/C. Carreau

ESA’s Venus Express begins its descent

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ESA test drive Mars rover in the Atacama Desert

The Sun sets for the final time over Concordia. Credit: IPEV/PNRA–A. Litterio

Sun sets over ESA’s Antarctic Concordia lab