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Hera's dino mascot

Name our dino – ESA’s Hera asteroid mission mascot!

10/09/2026 1374 views 8 likes

Tango's reentry recorded

Cluster’s encore for reentry science a success

02/09/2026 2178 views 45 likes

Samba's reentry recorded

Samba’s fiery farewell recorded

01/09/2026 2348 views 49 likes

Cluster satellite reentering Earth's atmosphere

Observing Samba and Tango’s reentries

28/08/2026 2649 views 36 likes

Draco’s capsule survives reentry-like conditions

Recording its own demise: Draco’s design challenge

25/08/2026 1537 views 12 likes

Simulation of Deimos impact

Hera's Mars flyby guided impact study of Deimos moon

18/08/2026 3349 views 46 likes

Hera departing Earth

Cruise control: the team guiding Hera to its asteroid

13/08/2026 1180 views 18 likes

Virtual totality ahead of the solar eclipse

29/07/2026 4819 views 17 likes

MTG-I’s orbit is geostationary

Lightning watch satellites spotted mystery Atlantic fireball

28/07/2026 1447 views 10 likes

Hera approaches Dimorphos

Space naming odyssey: why is ESA’s asteroid mission called …

14/07/2026 848 views 9 likes

Hera's instruments on its top 'asteroid deck'

Deep space software upgrade for Hera’s asteroid visit

08/07/2026 2723 views 43 likes

Don Quijote CubeSat around Dimorphos asteroid

Surface CubeSat contracted for Ramses asteroid mission

02/07/2026 2695 views 37 likes

Asteroid Day & eight other key dates in asteroid history

30/06/2026 2617 views 35 likes

Ramses central tube in cleanroom

Backbone of Ramses asteroid mission stands tall

25/06/2026 798 views 9 likes

Boosting European leadership in in-space operations and ser…

10/06/2026 1810 views 15 likes

MTG-LI detection of 22 January 2026 fireball over the Gulf of Aden. The observed signal shows a gradual increase in brightness as the meteor penetrates deeper into the atmosphere, before rapidly fading as it fragments or burns up.

Fireballs and lightning, very, very frightening – or not!

13/05/2026 1324 views 12 likes

ESA and JAXA team up on planetary defence, Ramses mission t…

07/05/2026 6595 views 70 likes

ROSIE solar radio telescope

ESA funds Polish radio telescope to monitor solar outbursts

22/04/2026 964 views 11 likes

Hera approaching Didymos asteroids

Hera on course for asteroid rendezvous

17/03/2026 5062 views 77 likes

ESA analysing fireball over Europe on 8 March 2026

09/03/2026 25474 views 85 likes

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

Asteroid 2024 YR4 will not impact the Moon

05/03/2026 12879 views 57 likes

ESA awards contracts for Ramses mission to Apophis

10/02/2026 4750 views 44 likes

Four-satellite Cluster mission

Moving satellites to meet a plane for rare reentry data

02/02/2026 7185 views 32 likes

Coronal Mass Ejection erupts from the Sun on 18 January 2026

ESA monitoring January 2026 space weather event

20/01/2026 24485 views 68 likes

ESA's Planetary Defence team

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

13/01/2026 3143 views 33 likes

An airplane in front of the Sun

When the Sun disrupts aviation

15/12/2025 3257 views 12 likes

Space Safety brochure front

Boost in funding expands Space Safety programme

28/11/2025 3241 views 5 likes

Lessons from the November 2025 solar storm

21/11/2025 16207 views 76 likes

Observation of 40 000 near-Earth Asteroids

40 000 near-Earth asteroids discovered!

20/11/2025 6499 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 154414 views 217 likes

ESA monitoring November 2025 space weather event

12/11/2025 35768 views 70 likes

Space debris surrounding Earth

Sounding the alarm: ESA introduces space environment ‘healt…

22/10/2025 11817 views 89 likes

Solar flare seen by Solar Orbiter

Flying through the biggest solar storm ever recorded

15/10/2025 30821 views 104 likes

ESA’s Hera targets early arrival at Didymos asteroids

07/10/2025 3485 views 14 likes

French meteorite challenges asteroid hazard models

02/10/2025 2223 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 3643 views 8 likes

ESA's Ramses mission at the asteroid Apophis

ESA and JAXA advance potential Apophis mission collaboration

27/08/2025 5053 views 63 likes

Model of the distribution of space debris around Earth

CREAM: avoiding collisions in space through automation

12/08/2025 8194 views 69 likes

Asteroid (18805) Kellyday

First asteroid sightings push Hera’s camera to the limit

06/08/2025 6313 views 63 likes

ESA observes interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS

ESA tracks rare interstellar comet

03/07/2025 83454 views 503 likes

Flyeye's view of the Andromeda galaxy

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

05/06/2025 8999 views 89 likes

ESA's Cyber Security Operations Centre

ESA inaugurates new Cyber Security Operations Centre

27/05/2025 4717 views 32 likes

Ramses mission patch

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

20/05/2025 4934 views 71 likes

Spain to support ESA satellite removal mission CAT

16/05/2025 2321 views 12 likes

Space Safety

Space Safety Programme at 2025 Ministerial Council

08/05/2025 7016 views 15 likes

Space debris surrounding Earth

ESA Space Environment Report 2025

01/04/2025 89283 views 87 likes

Hera's autonomous surface feature tracking during Mars flyby

Hera asteroid mission tested self-driving technique at Mars

25/03/2025 4774 views 40 likes

Where space weather starts

Supercomputing powers for space weather models

25/03/2025 1406 views 12 likes

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

Hera’s incredible adventures in brick building

13/03/2025 3962 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 25603 views 140 likes

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