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ESA's Planetary Defence team

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

13/01/2026 914 views 22 likes

An airplane in front of the Sun

When the Sun disrupts aviation

15/12/2025 1155 views 9 likes

Space Safety brochure front

Boost in funding expands Space Safety programme

28/11/2025 2018 views 5 likes

Lessons from the November 2025 solar storm

21/11/2025 10948 views 64 likes

Observation of 40 000 near-Earth Asteroids

40 000 near-Earth asteroids discovered!

20/11/2025 3873 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 150199 views 215 likes

ESA actively monitoring severe space weather event

12/11/2025 33056 views 69 likes

Space debris surrounding Earth

Sounding the alarm: ESA introduces space environment ‘healt…

22/10/2025 9738 views 85 likes

Solar flare seen by Solar Orbiter

Flying through the biggest solar storm ever recorded

15/10/2025 28079 views 98 likes

ESA’s Hera targets early arrival at Didymos asteroids

07/10/2025 2103 views 13 likes

French meteorite challenges asteroid hazard models

02/10/2025 1798 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 3030 views 8 likes

ESA's Ramses mission at the asteroid Apophis

ESA and JAXA advance potential Apophis mission collaboration

27/08/2025 4251 views 61 likes

Model of the distribution of space debris around Earth

CREAM: avoiding collisions in space through automation

12/08/2025 5922 views 63 likes

Asteroid (18805) Kellyday

First asteroid sightings push Hera’s camera to the limit

06/08/2025 5660 views 63 likes

ESA observes interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS

ESA tracks rare interstellar comet

03/07/2025 80177 views 498 likes

Flyeye's view of the Andromeda galaxy

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

05/06/2025 7951 views 87 likes

ESA's Cyber Security Operations Centre

ESA inaugurates new Cyber Security Operations Centre

27/05/2025 3495 views 29 likes

Ramses mission patch

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

20/05/2025 4040 views 69 likes

Spain to support ESA satellite removal mission CAT

16/05/2025 1580 views 9 likes

Space Safety

Space Safety Programme at 2025 Ministerial Council

08/05/2025 5557 views 13 likes

Space debris surrounding Earth

ESA Space Environment Report 2025

01/04/2025 46356 views 60 likes

Hera's autonomous surface feature tracking during Mars flyby

Hera asteroid mission tested self-driving technique at Mars

25/03/2025 4005 views 40 likes

Where space weather starts

Supercomputing powers for space weather models

25/03/2025 1116 views 12 likes

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

Hera’s incredible adventures in brick building

13/03/2025 3055 views 31 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 23623 views 139 likes

Hera swings by Mars

Watch live: Images from Hera’s Mars flyby

10/03/2025 27803 views 118 likes

Ramses mission patch

First CubeSat joins ESA's Ramses mission to asteroid Apophis

05/03/2025 5331 views 51 likes

Asteroid 2024 YR4 impact risk rises and falls

Asteroid 2024 YR4 no longer poses significant impact risk

25/02/2025 27982 views 89 likes

Near-Earth objects

ESA endorses Year of Asteroid Awareness and Planetary Defen…

07/02/2025 8886 views 64 likes

Asteroid - artist's impression

ESA actively monitoring near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4

29/01/2025 190075 views 145 likes

German laser ranging company receives ESA innovation award

21/11/2024 2277 views 10 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 1814 views 7 likes

CubeSat Deep Space Deployers in Hera spacecraft

Hera asteroid mission’s CubeSat passengers signal home

28/10/2024 5202 views 62 likes

ESA's Ramses mission to asteroid Apophis

ESA moves forward with Apophis mission preparations

17/10/2024 13995 views 128 likes

RISE: Extending missions in geostationary orbit

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

14/10/2024 11127 views 57 likes

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

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

14/10/2024 15199 views 139 likes

Members of the Hera operations team on launch day

Hera takes flight: Didymos, here we come

10/10/2024 4988 views 54 likes

Planetary defence mission Hera heading for deflected astero…

07/10/2024 16606 views 44 likes

Hera launch animation still

Hera launch: how to watch

04/10/2024 21698 views 92 likes

ESA's Draco mission: inside a fiery reentry

Draco mission made for destruction

24/09/2024 9841 views 66 likes

ESA’s final observations of asteroid 2024 RW1

Asteroid 2024 RW1 impact – ESA analysis

09/09/2024 7134 views 18 likes

Debris from DART impact could reach Earth

06/09/2024 9676 views 50 likes

Hera departs ESA test centre

Goodbye Hera: asteroid mission departs ESA test centre

02/09/2024 2812 views 19 likes

Cluster satellite reentering Earth's atmosphere

Watching Salsa’s reentry live from the sky

26/08/2024 7152 views 31 likes

Hera glides past Didymos to Dimorphos

Glimpses of Hera’s target asteroids inspire new science

31/07/2024 4591 views 51 likes

Hera inter-satellite link with Juventas CubeSat

Hera spacecraft trio to fly safe with inter-linked radio

24/07/2024 2313 views 3 likes

Space Debris

ESA Space Environment Report 2024

19/07/2024 38106 views 73 likes

Hera approaching Didymos asteroids

NASA selects US scientists to join ESA’s Hera mission

28/06/2024 1762 views 1 likes

Hera's control team visits the spacecraft inside its cleanroom

Countdown to Hera: launch campaign begins at ESOC

27/06/2024 3427 views 24 likes

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