European Space Agency: Elevating the Future of Europe

A dense field of stars and small galaxies fills the image. On the right, a large galaxy extends beyond the frame, appearing as a broad, pale glow that gradually fades into the darker sky toward the left. Just left of the galaxy is a densely packed region of bluish stars. A brilliant star with long diffraction spikes stands out near the lower left.

Euclid lays the foundation for its best-ever 3D map of the Universe

The European Space Agency’s Euclid mission has released its first major batch of data. With this release, which captures the light of more than a billion objects and covers an area of sky as big as 9500 full Moons, ESA’s dark Universe detective lays the foundation for its largest-ever 3D map of the cosmos.

First view of Earth from MTG-I2

MTG-I2 weather satellite delivers first images

The Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) mission’s second Imager satellite has delivered its first images, showing weather patterns over Europe and Africa.

Hera views Didymos asteroids

Hera’s first close-up view of Didymos asteroids

The European Space Agency’s Hera mission for planetary defence has acquired its first close-up of the Didymos binary asteroid system. NASA’s DART spacecraft impacted the smaller Dimorphos asteroid on 26 September 2022 – but this image gives a novel view of its adjacent parent asteroid.

Extended reality at ESA

A call to boost European space exploration

The Call sets out a shared vision for strengthening Europe's role in human and robotic space exploration and provides political guidance for preparations ahead of the Intermediate Ministerial Meeting in Rome on 15 December.


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