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Two large asteroids safely pass Earth just 42 hours apart

24/06/2024 42153 views 43 likes

Hera and CubeSats in Maxwell chamber

Hera and its CubeSats speak with mission control

13/06/2024 3147 views 12 likes

Zero Debris key visual

Dozens of companies, institutions and NGOs sign the Zero De…

06/06/2024 4192 views 10 likes

Hera approaches Dimorphos

Virtual flying lessons for Hera asteroid mission

29/05/2024 3452 views 9 likes

Vigil warns Earth

Airbus to build ESA’s Vigil space weather forecasting missi…

22/05/2024 5976 views 13 likes

Zero Debris key visual

Twelve countries sign the Zero Debris Charter

22/05/2024 5671 views 18 likes

Aurora near Frankfurt, Germany, May 2024

The May 2024 solar storm: your questions answered

17/05/2024 25006 views 63 likes

Hera swings by Mars

Hera asteroid mission’s side-trip to Mars

25/04/2024 5163 views 36 likes

ClearSpace-1 with captured Vespa

ESA advances Clearspace-1 development

23/04/2024 6289 views 32 likes

Juventas CubeSat deployment

Radar journey to centre of Hera’s asteroid with Juventas Cu…

27/03/2024 4396 views 10 likes

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks

‘Mother of Dragons’ comet visible in the night sky

26/03/2024 190487 views 124 likes

Milani CubeSat deployed from Hera asteroid mission

Shoebox-sized Milani CubeSat joining Hera asteroid mission

14/03/2024 4217 views 19 likes

ISS batteries orbital ground track (latest)

Reentry of International Space Station (ISS) batteries into…

08/03/2024 144924 views 256 likes

Simulation of DART's impact on Dimorphos

DART impact might have reshaped Hera's target asteroid

26/02/2024 5891 views 48 likes

Largest flare of the current solar cycle as of 22 February 2024

Sun fires off largest flare of current solar cycle

23/02/2024 28004 views 104 likes

ERS-2 reenters Earth’s atmosphere over Pacific Ocean

21/02/2024 32867 views 75 likes

ERS-2 reentering the atmosphere: 14:43 UTC, 14 January 2024

ERS-2 spotted by other satellites during descent

19/02/2024 18048 views 59 likes

Chelyabinsk asteroid trail

10 years preparing for 'Armageddon'

08/02/2024 6391 views 45 likes

Asteroid 2024 BX1 tracked prior to impact

Asteroid 2024 BX1 spotted three hours before impact

25/01/2024 9317 views 26 likes

Zero Debris key visual

ESA leads the way towards a Zero Debris future

14/12/2023 4870 views 62 likes

Milani Patch Contest terms and conditions

13/12/2023 1522 views 1 likes

Milani patch contest

Design the patch for Hera’s Milani CubeSat

13/12/2023 5430 views 35 likes

Hera inside the LEAF acoustic chamber

Hera asteroid mission hears the noise

10/11/2023 5494 views 55 likes

The growing problem of space debris

World-first Zero Debris Charter goes live

06/11/2023 12365 views 57 likes

Final images of Aeolus during its brief phase as space debris

Final images before Aeolus demise

05/09/2023 21690 views 84 likes

Hera's Core Module lowered onto Propulsion Module

Hera asteroid spacecraft assembled

24/08/2023 5999 views 54 likes

ClearSpace-1 with captured Vespa

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

22/08/2023 18321 views 94 likes

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

ESA’s Space Environment Report 2023

10/08/2023 27088 views 85 likes

Juventas studies asteroid's internal structure

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

10/08/2023 5555 views 65 likes

Dimorphos asteroid seen by DART

Imagine walking on Hera’s asteroid

30/06/2023 4708 views 78 likes

Hera and its CubeSats at Didymos system

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

29/06/2023 3759 views 41 likes

GRASS gravimeter on shaker

Instrument to measure asteroid gravity tested for space

22/05/2023 6615 views 66 likes

Hera, her CubeSats, and their rocky target destination

What colour is an asteroid? Hyperspectral imager to find out

24/04/2023 3250 views 44 likes

Hera, her CubeSats, and their rocky target destination

Eyes on Hera: Asteroid mission’s cameras ready

23/02/2023 7831 views 111 likes

Curious comet’s rare close approach

01/02/2023 35580 views 243 likes

Artist's impression of asteroid 21 Lutetia

Christmas challenge: find mystery asteroid

09/12/2022 11060 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 60562 views 142 likes

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

21/11/2022 8344 views 49 likes

Artist's impression of asteroid 21 Lutetia

30 000 near-Earth asteroids discovered and rising

12/10/2022 20877 views 65 likes

LICIACube image of asteroid ejecta

First kinetic impact test succeeds in shifting asteroid orb…

12/10/2022 6281 views 55 likes

DART's moment of impact

Hera team congratulates NASA asteroid impactors

27/09/2022 8947 views 85 likes

Plume ejects from Dimorphos as DART impacts

ESA to capture light from deflected asteroid’s new plume

26/09/2022 25194 views 79 likes

DART impacting asteroid

ESA deep space network tracks DART asteroid impact

20/09/2022 15177 views 104 likes

DART impacting Dimorphos

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

01/09/2022 14737 views 101 likes

Aurorae

Protecting Artemis and lunar explorers from space radiation

26/08/2022 9479 views 92 likes

Madrid meteor's cometary origins unearthed

09/08/2022 6976 views 63 likes

Artist's view of Swarm

Swarm dodges collision during climb to escape Sun’s wrath

14/07/2022 26988 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 44470 views 73 likes

GIF from ESA's

ESA’s Space Environment Report 2022

22/04/2022 36708 views 82 likes

Space in Response to Humanitarian Crises

Space in Response to Humanitarian Crises

13/04/2022 1739 views 2 likes

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