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DART impacting Dimorphos

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

01/09/2022 14978 views 101 likes

Aurorae

Protecting Artemis and lunar explorers from space radiation

26/08/2022 10602 views 93 likes

Madrid meteor's cometary origins unearthed

09/08/2022 7104 views 63 likes

Artist's view of Swarm

Swarm dodges collision during climb to escape Sun’s wrath

14/07/2022 27184 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 44559 views 73 likes

GIF from ESA's

ESA’s Space Environment Report 2022

22/04/2022 37114 views 82 likes

Space Safety & Security at ESA

New home for Earth’s protectors

12/04/2022 10304 views 67 likes

Kleť Observatory sees asteroid 2022 EB5, 13 minutes before impact

Fifth asteroid ever discovered before impact

15/03/2022 20641 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 77763 views 99 likes

New laser station lights the way to debris reduction

15/02/2022 12204 views 113 likes

Vigil warns Earth

Introducing ESA Vigil: Earth’s devoted solar defender

10/02/2022 9808 views 47 likes

The Moon

Incoming! Debris enroute to the Moon

02/02/2022 16588 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 9275 views 114 likes

Secure connectivity

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

22/12/2021 4993 views 16 likes

Real colour composite image of comet Leonard

Comet Leonard soon visible to naked eye?

08/12/2021 41206 views 151 likes

Solar Orbiter Earth flyby

ESA's riskiest flyby

25/11/2021 9386 views 80 likes

Solar Orbiter's Earth flyby

Listen to: ESA's riskiest flyby

25/11/2021 1563 views 23 likes

Collision Warning

When debris disaster strikes

18/11/2021 7386 views 90 likes

NASA's DART impacting asteroid

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

18/11/2021 8379 views 79 likes

Cyber-resilience

European agencies team up for cyber resilience

14/10/2021 2697 views 9 likes

Scaling up ESA’s asteroid facilities

11/10/2021 5995 views 60 likes

Milani scans Didymos

CubeSat will sift asteroid secrets from reflected sunshine

30/06/2021 6507 views 53 likes

Milani studies asteroid dust

CubeSat named for pioneer of European planetary defence

30/06/2021 3182 views 26 likes

Incoming asteroid

ESA joins Asteroid Day for rocky live broadcast

29/06/2021 4254 views 63 likes

Space Safety

Hang out with Europe’s top space experts

23/06/2021 8747 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 8047 views 38 likes

Space Safety & Security at ESA

ESA’s digital celebration of space safety and Asteroid Day

14/06/2021 5857 views 46 likes

Hera in space

The Incredible Adventures of the Hera mission – Presenting …

01/06/2021 6303 views 76 likes

The scales of the space debris problem

ESA's Space Environment Report 2021

27/05/2021 22803 views 68 likes

Spacecraft monitoring the Sun

Podcast: Name our space weather mission

19/05/2021 2818 views 45 likes

The 'No Name Mission

Name ESA’s new mission! (CLOSED)

17/05/2021 43662 views 162 likes

Fictional impact zone from the 2021 international Planetary Defence Conference

Lessons learnt from simulated strike

30/04/2021 7425 views 68 likes

ESA Explores a fictional asteroid impact

28/04/2021 3279 views 56 likes

Animated depiction of a spacecraft deploying a drag sail in orbit

Setting sail for sustainable space

28/04/2021 7169 views 84 likes

Testing reentry

Space debris: feel the burn

28/04/2021 7010 views 60 likes

ESA's Test-Bed Telescope 2 at sunset at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile

New ESA telescope in South America to search for asteroids

27/04/2021 8454 views 74 likes

The growing problem of space debris

Looking back on a rubbish week

27/04/2021 2232 views 8 likes

Asteroid passing Earth

ESA to live tweet asteroid impact exercise

26/04/2021 5500 views 65 likes

André Kuipers

ESA astronaut André Kuipers on sheltering from space debris

22/04/2021 2758 views 53 likes

When the atmosphere isn't enough

19/04/2021 5189 views 64 likes

ESA invites ideas to open up in-orbit servicing market

01/04/2021 9277 views 70 likes

Stero view of simulated Didymos breakup

Brian May helps show Hera’s target asteroid may be ‘dust bu…

30/03/2021 4449 views 37 likes

Apophis impact ruled out for the first time

26/03/2021 30302 views 114 likes

Geostationary orbit

ESA and UNOOSA illustrate space debris problem

10/02/2021 11102 views 126 likes

What are satellites up against when it comes to space debris?

ESA & UNOOSA space debris infographics and podcast

10/02/2021 16067 views 14 likes

Still from Hera full dome show

ESA’s Hera mission – fulldome show for planetaria

02/02/2021 5307 views 48 likes

Click on image to see the huge flare produced on 4 November 2003

ESA's Portal to the Sun gets an upgrade

17/12/2020 2944 views 9 likes

Hera leaving Earth

Ireland helping ESA’s Hera asteroid mission find its way

11/12/2020 21590 views 54 likes

Reentry of Hayabusa2's sample capsule

Hera team congratulates JAXA on asteroid sample return

06/12/2020 6984 views 145 likes

Process of capture

ESA purchases world-first debris removal mission from start…

01/12/2020 29730 views 157 likes

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