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.
Find out more about space activities in our 23 Member States, and understand how ESA works together with their national agencies, institutions and organisations.
Exploring our Solar System and unlocking the secrets of the Universe
Go to topicProtecting life and infrastructure on Earth and in orbit
Go to topicUsing space to benefit citizens and meet future challenges on Earth
Go to topicMaking space accessible and developing the technologies for the future
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Where does life come from? Are we really just stardust? Is there life beyond Earth?
Exobiology or Astrobiology combine disciplines such as physics, biochemistry, astronomy and geology to investigate the origins and early evolution of life on Earth and the possibility of life on other worlds. Of course none of these researches would be possible without Space missions.
ESA is contributing a lot in our understanding of the origins of life, thanks to several of its missions: Huygens or Mars Express for example for these last years, soon Rosetta, due to land on a comet in 2014 and later with Exomars.