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Hera's Core Module lowered onto Propulsion Module

Hera asteroid spacecraft assembled

24/08/2023 6396 views 54 likes

ClearSpace-1 with captured Vespa

Objects detected in the vicinity of ClearSpace-1 debris rem…

22/08/2023 18995 views 95 likes

CLIP: Simulating Aeolus’s demise: a bird’s eye view

ESA’s Space Environment Report 2023

10/08/2023 29229 views 85 likes

Juventas studies asteroid's internal structure

Hera’s mini-radar will probe asteroid’s heart

10/08/2023 6161 views 66 likes

Dimorphos asteroid seen by DART

Imagine walking on Hera’s asteroid

30/06/2023 5206 views 78 likes

Hera and its CubeSats at Didymos system

Precision deployer to put Hera’s CubeSats into asteroid orb…

29/06/2023 4168 views 41 likes

GRASS gravimeter on shaker

Instrument to measure asteroid gravity tested for space

22/05/2023 7040 views 66 likes

Hera, her CubeSats, and their rocky target

What colour is an asteroid? Hyperspectral imager to find out

24/04/2023 3392 views 44 likes

Hera, her CubeSats, and their rocky target

Eyes on Hera: Asteroid mission’s cameras ready

23/02/2023 8205 views 111 likes

Curious comet’s rare close approach

01/02/2023 36227 views 243 likes

Artist's impression of asteroid 21 Lutetia

Christmas challenge: find mystery asteroid

09/12/2022 11216 views 52 likes

Time-lapse photograph of 2022 WJ1 taken by astronomer Robert Weryk in Ontario, Canada

The sixth asteroid impact we saw coming

24/11/2022 62181 views 142 likes

European space sector commits: Earth is ours, we must cheri…

21/11/2022 8633 views 49 likes

Artist's impression of asteroid 21 Lutetia

30 000 near-Earth asteroids discovered and rising

12/10/2022 21476 views 65 likes

LICIACube image of asteroid ejecta

First kinetic impact test succeeds in shifting asteroid orb…

12/10/2022 6965 views 56 likes

DART's moment of impact

Hera team congratulates NASA asteroid impactors

27/09/2022 9258 views 85 likes

Plume ejects from Dimorphos as DART impacts

ESA to capture light from deflected asteroid’s new plume

26/09/2022 25441 views 79 likes

DART impacting asteroid

ESA deep space network tracks DART asteroid impact

20/09/2022 16544 views 104 likes

DART impacting Dimorphos

After NASA’s asteroid impact, ESA’s Hera comes next

01/09/2022 15190 views 101 likes

Aurorae

Protecting Artemis and lunar explorers from space radiation

26/08/2022 12226 views 94 likes

Madrid meteor's cometary origins unearthed

09/08/2022 7260 views 63 likes

Artist's view of Swarm

Swarm dodges collision during climb to escape Sun’s wrath

14/07/2022 27375 views 181 likes

A busy field of stars hide once-risky asteroid 2021 QM1

Impact in 2052 ruled out as ESA counts down to Asteroid Day

29/06/2022 44742 views 73 likes

GIF from ESA's

ESA’s Space Environment Report 2022

22/04/2022 37901 views 82 likes

Space Safety & Security at ESA

New home for Earth’s protectors

12/04/2022 10513 views 67 likes

Kleť Observatory sees asteroid 2022 EB5, 13 minutes before impact

Fifth asteroid ever discovered before impact

15/03/2022 20893 views 150 likes

Asteroid 2022 AE1 observed with the Calar Alto Schmidt telescope in Spain

The rise and fall of the riskiest asteroid in a decade

24/02/2022 78151 views 99 likes

New laser station lights the way to debris reduction

15/02/2022 12586 views 113 likes

Vigil warns Earth

Introducing ESA Vigil: Earth’s devoted solar defender

10/02/2022 10164 views 47 likes

The Moon

Incoming! Debris enroute to the Moon

02/02/2022 17309 views 133 likes

Asteroid 2020 XL5 has been confirmed as the second known Earth Trojan asteroid

Newly discovered asteroid just second of its kind

01/02/2022 9599 views 114 likes

Secure connectivity

New cyber-security centre will safeguard ESA assets and mis…

22/12/2021 5165 views 17 likes

Real colour composite image of comet Leonard

Comet Leonard soon visible to naked eye?

08/12/2021 41345 views 151 likes

Solar Orbiter Earth flyby

ESA's riskiest flyby

25/11/2021 9554 views 80 likes

Solar Orbiter's Earth flyby

Listen to: ESA's riskiest flyby

25/11/2021 1601 views 23 likes

Collision Warning

When debris disaster strikes

18/11/2021 7657 views 90 likes

NASA's DART impacting asteroid

Planetary defenders: after NASA’s DART comes ESA’s Hera

18/11/2021 8603 views 79 likes

Cyber-resilience

European agencies team up for cyber resilience

14/10/2021 2794 views 9 likes

Scaling up ESA’s asteroid facilities

11/10/2021 6097 views 60 likes

Milani scans Didymos

CubeSat will sift asteroid secrets from reflected sunshine

30/06/2021 6728 views 53 likes

Milani studies asteroid dust

CubeSat named for pioneer of European planetary defence

30/06/2021 3297 views 26 likes

Incoming asteroid

ESA joins Asteroid Day for rocky live broadcast

29/06/2021 4373 views 63 likes

Space Safety

Hang out with Europe’s top space experts

23/06/2021 8908 views 56 likes

Is this what spacecraft will look like in the future?

Space sustainability rating to shine light on debris problem

17/06/2021 8248 views 38 likes

Space Safety & Security at ESA

ESA’s digital celebration of space safety and Asteroid Day

14/06/2021 5953 views 46 likes

Hera in space

The Incredible Adventures of the Hera mission – Presenting …

01/06/2021 6431 views 76 likes

The scales of the space debris problem

ESA's Space Environment Report 2021

27/05/2021 23367 views 68 likes

Spacecraft monitoring the Sun

Podcast: Name our space weather mission

19/05/2021 2899 views 45 likes

The 'No Name Mission

Name ESA’s new mission! (CLOSED)

17/05/2021 43942 views 162 likes

Fictional impact zone from the 2021 international Planetary Defence Conference

Lessons learnt from simulated strike

30/04/2021 7752 views 69 likes

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