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

Collision Warning

Testing mini-radar to peer inside asteroid

RadCube reaches out

ESA and EDA renew cooperation

Cyber-resilience

A new home for Planetary Defence in Europe

ESA's NEOCC gets an upgrade

Discover Didymos and Dimorphos – the ancient traveller and mighty moon

Meet Hera and cubesats Milani and Juventas

Off to explore Didymos, Hera is ESA's asteroid detective

Meet Hera, our very own asteroid detective

Eye of ESA’s asteroid mission

Is this what spacecraft will look like in the future?

The scales of the space debris problem

Fictional impact zone from the 2021 international Planetary Defence Conference

Animated depiction of a spacecraft deploying a drag sail in orbit

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

ESA's Test-Bed Telescope 2 on site at ESO's La Silla Observatory

ESA's Test-Bed Telescope 2 at ESO's La Silla alongside other telescopes

First Light with ESA's Test-Bed Telescope at La Silla (zoom on Centaurus A)

First Light with ESA's Test-Bed Telescope at La Silla

Potential impact hemisphere for 2021 PDC

Drone test of Hera mission asteroid radar

How do we tackle the debris problem, to secure the sustainability of space long term?

How at risk are space explorers from passing debris?

Asteroid Apophis observed during recent flyby, ruling out future impact

How much damage can debris do?

Learning lessons from the past on space debris

Using reentries to clean up

Launch rates are dramatically increasing

Collision avoidance: what's the cost?

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