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The European Space Agency (ESA) is Europe’s gateway to space. Its mission is to shape the development of Europe’s space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world.
ESA Top News
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ESA Top News

March 20th, 2025 09:00:00 EDT -0400 Read ESA's Strategy 2040

ESA's Strategy 2040

Read the Five Goals

October 9th, 2024 04:31:00 EDT -0400 Five reasons to join the European Space Agency!
Five reasons to join the European Space Agency

In 2023, ESA published more than 400 vacancies in engineering, science and business and administration and more positions continue to be published as we are always on the lookout for talented new colleagues to join us. So, what does it mean to join ESA? Here are five reasons why you should consider ESA as the next step in your career!

March 25th, 2025 07:00:00 EDT -0400 ACES: time to get ready
ESA's Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Image: ESA's Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space at NASA's Kennedy Space Center
March 24th, 2025 10:00:00 EDT -0400 Webb unmasks true nature of the Cosmic Tornado
The Cosmic Tornado / Herbig-Haro 49/50 (Webb telescope image)

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured a beautiful juxtaposition of the nearby protostellar outflow known as Herbig-Haro 49/50 with a perfectly positioned, more distant spiral galaxy. Due to the close proximity of this Herbig-Haro object to Earth, this new composite infrared image of the outflow from a young star allows researchers to examine details on small spatial scales like never before. With Webb, we can better understand how the jet activity associated with the formation of young stars can affect the environment surrounding them.

March 21st, 2025 11:00:00 EDT -0400 Introducing the new ESA's hyper performance computing
Video: 00:02:46

The high-performance computing (HPC) environment will be available for scientific research and technological development activities, supporting all ESA programmes as well as the researchers and small- and medium-enterprises from Member States.

March 21st, 2025 10:15:00 EDT -0400 Week in images: 17-21 March 2025
Galaxies in different shapes captured by Euclid

Week in images: 17-21 March 2025

Discover our week through the lens

March 21st, 2025 09:00:00 EDT -0400 Andrea Patassa | Astronaut Reserve Member, Test Pilot, Spiderman? | ESA Explores #11
Video: 00:09:13

Meet Andrea Patassa—test pilot, aviator, passionate outdoor adventurer, and Member of ESA’s Astronaut Reserve. 

In this miniseries, we take you on a journey through the ESA Astronaut Reserve, diving into the first part of their Astronaut Reserve Training (ART) at the European Astronaut Centre (EAC) near Cologne, Germany. Our “ARTists” are immersing themselves in everything from ESA and the International Space Station programme to the European space industry and institutions. They’re gaining hands-on experience in technical skills like spacecraft systems and robotics, alongside human behaviour, scientific lessons, scuba diving, and survival training. 

ESA’s Astronaut Reserve Training programme is all about building Europe’s next generation of space explorers—preparing them for the opportunities of future missions in Earth orbit and beyond. 

This interview was recorded in November 2024. 

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Keep exploring with ESA Explores

March 21st, 2025 08:50:00 EDT -0400 Inner space engineering
Inner space engineering Image: Inner space engineering
March 19th, 2025 07:00:00 EDT -0400 Euclid opens data treasure trove, offers glimpse of deep fields
Euclid Deep Field South, 16x zoom

On 19 March 2025, the European Space Agency’s Euclid mission released its first batch of survey data, including a preview of its deep fields. Here, hundreds of thousands of galaxies in different shapes and sizes take centre stage and show a glimpse of their large-scale organisation in the cosmic web.