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ESA analysing fireball over Europe on 8 March 2026

09/03/2026 19919 views 72 likes

James Webb Space Telescope spots faint asteroid 2024 YR4 - 18 February 2026

Asteroid 2024 YR4 will not impact the Moon

05/03/2026 7359 views 52 likes

ESA awards contracts for Ramses mission to Apophis

10/02/2026 3268 views 43 likes

Four-satellite Cluster mission

Moving satellites to meet a plane for rare reentry data

02/02/2026 5260 views 30 likes

Coronal Mass Ejection erupts from the Sun on 18 January 2026

ESA monitoring January 2026 space weather event

20/01/2026 19556 views 64 likes

ESA's Planetary Defence team

10 asteroids named to honour ESA’s role in Planetary Defence

13/01/2026 2242 views 33 likes

An airplane in front of the Sun

When the Sun disrupts aviation

15/12/2025 2200 views 11 likes

Space Safety brochure front

Boost in funding expands Space Safety programme

28/11/2025 2562 views 5 likes

Lessons from the November 2025 solar storm

21/11/2025 13164 views 72 likes

Observation of 40 000 near-Earth Asteroids

40 000 near-Earth asteroids discovered!

20/11/2025 4903 views 51 likes

ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter observes comet 3I/ATLAS – GIF

ESA pinpoints 3I/ATLAS’s path with data from Mars

14/11/2025 152248 views 216 likes

ESA monitoring November 2025 space weather event

12/11/2025 34095 views 70 likes

Space debris surrounding Earth

Sounding the alarm: ESA introduces space environment ‘healt…

22/10/2025 10536 views 85 likes

Solar flare seen by Solar Orbiter

Flying through the biggest solar storm ever recorded

15/10/2025 29368 views 102 likes

ESA’s Hera targets early arrival at Didymos asteroids

07/10/2025 2616 views 13 likes

French meteorite challenges asteroid hazard models

02/10/2025 1933 views 14 likes

Locations of lunar impact flashes detected by the NELIOTA project

ESA’s new project to keep an eye on Moon strikes

23/09/2025 3247 views 8 likes

ESA's Ramses mission at the asteroid Apophis

ESA and JAXA advance potential Apophis mission collaboration

27/08/2025 4511 views 61 likes

Model of the distribution of space debris around Earth

CREAM: avoiding collisions in space through automation

12/08/2025 6602 views 63 likes

Asteroid (18805) Kellyday

First asteroid sightings push Hera’s camera to the limit

06/08/2025 5881 views 63 likes

ESA observes interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS

ESA tracks rare interstellar comet

03/07/2025 81112 views 501 likes

Flyeye's view of the Andromeda galaxy

ESA’s new asteroid hunter opens its eye to the sky

05/06/2025 8339 views 87 likes

ESA's Cyber Security Operations Centre

ESA inaugurates new Cyber Security Operations Centre

27/05/2025 3889 views 30 likes

Ramses mission patch

Second CubeSat joins ESA’s Ramses mission to asteroid Apoph…

20/05/2025 4290 views 70 likes

Spain to support ESA satellite removal mission CAT

16/05/2025 1846 views 12 likes

Space Safety

Space Safety Programme at 2025 Ministerial Council

08/05/2025 6078 views 15 likes

Space debris surrounding Earth

ESA Space Environment Report 2025

01/04/2025 58768 views 72 likes

Hera's autonomous surface feature tracking during Mars flyby

Hera asteroid mission tested self-driving technique at Mars

25/03/2025 4244 views 40 likes

Where space weather starts

Supercomputing powers for space weather models

25/03/2025 1222 views 12 likes

Cartoon Hera made using LEGO® bricks, designed by Frans Snik

Hera’s incredible adventures in brick building

13/03/2025 3414 views 32 likes

Sir Brian May and the rest of Hera's science team see Mars image arrive

Hera asteroid mission spies Mars’s Deimos moon

13/03/2025 24275 views 139 likes

Hera swings by Mars

Watch live: Images from Hera’s Mars flyby

10/03/2025 28154 views 119 likes

Ramses mission patch

First CubeSat joins ESA's Ramses mission to asteroid Apophis

05/03/2025 5565 views 52 likes

Asteroid 2024 YR4 impact risk rises and falls

Asteroid 2024 YR4 no longer poses significant impact risk

25/02/2025 28828 views 89 likes

Near-Earth objects

ESA endorses Year of Asteroid Awareness and Planetary Defen…

07/02/2025 9255 views 65 likes

Asteroid - artist's impression

ESA actively monitoring near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4

29/01/2025 191438 views 145 likes

German laser ranging company receives ESA innovation award

21/11/2024 2468 views 11 likes

ESA has signed a contract with Hemeria worth €9.8 million to design, build and operate Swing, the Agency’s first space weather nanosatellite mission. Swing will aim at demonstrating the value of nanosatellites to gather space weather data and support the commercialisation trend in the New Space era.

Hemeria to implement ESA’s first space weather nanosatellit…

20/11/2024 1956 views 7 likes

CubeSat Deep Space Deployers in Hera spacecraft

Hera asteroid mission’s CubeSat passengers signal home

28/10/2024 5333 views 62 likes

ESA's Ramses mission to asteroid Apophis

ESA moves forward with Apophis mission preparations

17/10/2024 14204 views 128 likes

RISE: Extending missions in geostationary orbit

ESA to build first in-orbit servicing mission with D-Orbit

14/10/2024 12132 views 58 likes

Hera's first images (Asteroid Framing Camera - Earth)

Hera’s first images offer parting glimpse of Earth and Moon

14/10/2024 15400 views 140 likes

Members of the Hera operations team on launch day

Hera takes flight: Didymos, here we come

10/10/2024 5135 views 54 likes

Planetary defence mission Hera heading for deflected astero…

07/10/2024 16828 views 44 likes

Hera launch animation still

Hera launch: how to watch

04/10/2024 21871 views 92 likes

ESA's Draco mission: inside a fiery reentry

Draco mission made for destruction

24/09/2024 11319 views 69 likes

ESA’s final observations of asteroid 2024 RW1

Asteroid 2024 RW1 impact – ESA analysis

09/09/2024 7345 views 18 likes

Debris from DART impact could reach Earth

06/09/2024 9820 views 50 likes

Hera departs ESA test centre

Goodbye Hera: asteroid mission departs ESA test centre

02/09/2024 2914 views 19 likes

Cluster satellite reentering Earth's atmosphere

Watching Salsa’s reentry live from the sky

26/08/2024 7369 views 31 likes

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