ESA's Living Planet symposium in Bergen, 28 June - 2 July, gearing up

Credit: ESA - T. Schonfelder

ESA's Italien space food

ESA-Experte Thomas Ormston zur Erdbeobachtung

Learning the ropes at ESA CAVES 2012

Traversing the cave during ESA CAVES 2012

Mission teams, media, VIP guests and social media invitees were at ESA's ESOC mission control centre for the Aeolus launch on 22 August 2018. Image credit: ESA/J. Mai

Mission teams, media, VIP guests and social media invitees were at ESA's ESOC mission control centre for the Aeolus launch on 22 August 2018. Image credit: ESA/J. Mai

A full-size working model of Gaia’s internal systems arrived in Germany this week. The Avionics Model is mounted in a circular set-up representing the systems on the actual satellite, now orbiting the Sun–Earth L2 point about 500 000 km from Earth.

Darmstadt, 3 September 2013. All photos credit: ESA/J. Mai

Scenes around ESA's New Norcia station, Western Australia, following the installation of a solar power facility in 2017. Credit: ESA/D. O'Donnell CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

Tasting the food prior to mission start

A selection of images from the 'Long Night of the Stars', ESOC's 50th anniversary open house, on Friday, 8 September 2017. Credit: ESA/J.Mai

Holga 120N | Fuji Provia 400X (expired date 2009-11) crossprocessed

View On Black

mi debilidad!

The room literally felt like it electrified when we had a total of 11 astronauts with us

Encontro de Serviços e Atendimento

Todos los hombres se entenderían bien sin las palabras 'mio' y 'tuyo' (Proverbio italiano)

Professor Allott in the Vatican Gardens at the Plenary Session of the Pontical Academy of Social Sciences in 2009.

Gigantic cavern

A selection of images from the 'Long Night of the Stars', ESOC's 50th anniversary open house, on Friday, 8 September 2017. Credit: ESA/J.Mai

ESA’s Living Planet Symposium, one of the world’s leading Earth observation conferences, opened on 23 June 2025 in Vienna.

More than 6500 participants from almost 120 countries signed up to attend the week-long event. With more than 4200 scientific presentations and posters, the symposium provides a forum and meeting point for scientists, academics and space industry representatives, as well as students and citizens.

Credits: ESA/J. Mai

Darmstadt, 3 September 2013. All photos credit: ESA/J. Mai

A selection of images from the 'Long Night of the Stars', ESOC's 50th anniversary open house, on Friday, 8 September 2017. Credit: ESA/J.Mai

Sunplus

" Esas mañanas

en que venias

mirarte en mi puerta sonriéndome

méterte en mi sabana

tocar tu piel

y esa sensación de que el cielo

era estar así abrazados "

Jorge González

Our toilet facilities at ESA CAVES 2012

Encontro de Serviços e Atendimento

End of mission team photo

llenas de momentos inexplicables.

A selection of images from the 'Long Night of the Stars', ESOC's 50th anniversary open house, on Friday, 8 September 2017. Credit: ESA/J.Mai

A selection of images from the 'Long Night of the Stars', ESOC's 50th anniversary open house, on Friday, 8 September 2017. Credit: ESA/J.Mai

Credit: © CNES/Emmanuel Grimault, 2011

Exploring deep shafts during ESA CAVES 2012

Parece estar divertida con algo que solo ella sabe.

Encontro de Serviços e Atendimento

Climbing practice before entering the cave

A selection of images from the 'Long Night of the Stars', ESOC's 50th anniversary open house, on Friday, 8 September 2017. Credit: ESA/J.Mai

A selection of images from the 'Long Night of the Stars', ESOC's 50th anniversary open house, on Friday, 8 September 2017. Credit: ESA/J.Mai

Screengrabs from ESA's dramatisation movie, "The Burn." In the near future, it’s just another day of routine operations at ESA’s Mission Control - or is it? Discover what happens when a critical spacecraft emergency pushes our expert teams to their limits #MakeTheBurn www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhM-bqXTKoU

Credit: ESA