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Antennas at the European Space Agency's Redu ground station, Ardennes, Belg. European Space Operations Centre, Darmstadt, Ger. The Giotto space probe, developed and launched by the European Space Agency for a flyby of Halley's Comet in 1986. European Space Agency officials tracking Mars Express and Beagle 2 from the main control room of the European Space Operations Centre, Darmstadt, Ger.
The plan to protect Earth from hazardous asteroids
Space exploration and the European Space Agency Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko photographed by Rosetta spacecraft first photograph taken on a comet's surface The European Space Agency's Venus Express launch rocket prior to liftoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The craft launched on Nov. 9, 2005, and arrived at Venus on April 11, 2006. Rosetta spacecraft
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The plan to protect Earth from hazardous asteroids
Learn about the European Space Agency's Don Quijote project, which was designed to...
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz
Witness the landing of the ESA's Philae space probe on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the first spacecraft to land on a comet
The landing of the European Space Agency's Philae space probe on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko...
Video: European Space Agency - ESA
Explaining the smelly secrets of outer space
What does outer space smell like? Learn about some reported smells of outer space...
Video: © American Chemical Society (A Britannica Publishing Partner)

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Antennas at the European Space Agency's Redu ground station, Ardennes, Belg.
© A. Gonin/ESA
European Space Operations Centre, Darmstadt, Ger.
© J. Mai/ESA
The Giotto space probe, developed and launched by the European Space Agency for a...
Courtesy of the European Space Agency
European Space Agency officials tracking Mars Express and Beagle 2 from the main...
© J. Mai/ESA
Space exploration and the European Space Agency
European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen, Soyuz spacecraft commander Gennady...
ESA-Stephane Corvaja, 2015
Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko photographed by Rosetta spacecraft
Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko photographed by the European Space Agency spacecraft...
ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA
first photograph taken on a comet's surface
The surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in a photograph taken by the European...
ESA/Rosetta/Philae/CIVA
The European Space Agency's Venus Express launch rocket prior to liftoff from the...
ESA/Starem—S. Corvaja
Rosetta spacecraft
Artist's conception of the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft. Rosetta was...
NASA/JPL
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