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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 77534 views 99 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 9105 views 114 likes

Real colour composite image of comet Leonard

Comet Leonard soon visible to naked eye?

08/12/2021 41116 views 151 likes

ESA's 4.5m tracking antenna, New Norcia, Western Australia

Enabling & Support

Catching asteroid deflection mission's first words

22/11/2021 13142 views 104 likes

NASA's DART impacting asteroid

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

18/11/2021 8269 views 79 likes

Scaling up ESA’s asteroid facilities

11/10/2021 5904 views 60 likes

Milani scans Didymos

CubeSat will sift asteroid secrets from reflected sunshine

30/06/2021 6419 views 53 likes

Milani studies asteroid dust

CubeSat named for pioneer of European planetary defence

30/06/2021 3092 views 26 likes

Incoming asteroid

ESA joins Asteroid Day for rocky live broadcast

29/06/2021 4192 views 63 likes

Space Safety

Hang out with Europe’s top space experts

23/06/2021 8662 views 56 likes

Space Safety & Security at ESA

ESA’s digital celebration of space safety and Asteroid Day

14/06/2021 5804 views 46 likes

Hera in space

The Incredible Adventures of the Hera mission – Presenting …

01/06/2021 6213 views 76 likes

ESA Explores a fictional asteroid impact

28/04/2021 3252 views 56 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 8340 views 74 likes

Asteroid passing Earth

ESA to live tweet asteroid impact exercise

26/04/2021 5458 views 65 likes

When the atmosphere isn't enough

19/04/2021 5108 views 64 likes

Apophis impact ruled out for the first time

26/03/2021 29193 views 113 likes

Gaia mapping the stars of the Milky Way

Gaia revolutionises asteroid tracking

01/07/2020 7085 views 88 likes

Space Safety

An Agency for asteroids

23/06/2020 4698 views 27 likes

Brian May, Astrophysicist and Rockstar

Queen’s Brian May works to probe origin of asteroids

02/06/2020 10565 views 64 likes

Opening ESA's Optical Ground Station

Enabling & Support

ESA’s Tenerife telescope resumes watching the sky

30/04/2020 4352 views 52 likes

Juventas radar CubeSat

Hera’s radar CubeSat will peer into asteroid’s heart

23/10/2019 3177 views 5 likes

NASA's DART impacting asteroid

Driving diamond into asteroid dust helps model planetary de…

19/09/2019 2797 views 13 likes

Artist impression of ‘Oumuamua

Interstellar 2.0

12/09/2019 24836 views 249 likes

Hera approaches the impact scene

A burst of asteroid activity in Europe

10/09/2019 13247 views 101 likes

Hera at Dimorphos

Europe and US teaming up for asteroid deflection

02/09/2019 30975 views 162 likes

Asteroid '2019 OK' observed moving against backdrop of stars

Asteroid's surprise close approach illustrates need for mor…

02/08/2019 24496 views 182 likes

Lutetia

ESA confirms asteroid will miss Earth in 2019

16/07/2019 33361 views 160 likes

CubeSat approaching asteroid

When CubeSats meet asteroid

28/06/2019 6576 views 78 likes

DART impacting asteroid

Will DART make its target asteroid go wobbly? Hera will see

27/06/2019 3566 views 54 likes

Asteroid Ryugu

ESA marks Asteroid Day on 30 June

24/06/2019 6162 views 57 likes

Hera surveying Dimorphos

Hera asteroid mission’s brain to be radiation-hard and fail…

11/06/2019 5216 views 65 likes

Side by side observation and artist's impression of Asteroid 1999 KW4

Binary asteroids, key to Earth’s planetary defence

04/06/2019 7168 views 56 likes

Hera mission patch

Hera gets its own logo

03/05/2019 3105 views 15 likes

APEX CubeSat

Hera’s APEX CubeSat will reveal the stuff that asteroids ar…

02/05/2019 6982 views 68 likes

Juventas CubeSat

Hera’s CubeSat to perform first radar probe of an asteroid

01/05/2019 9804 views 87 likes

The day the asteroid might hit

26/04/2019 41503 views 152 likes

SCI impactor on way to Ryugu asteroid

Earth vs. asteroids: humans strike back

22/04/2019 12795 views 148 likes

Infrared imaging of the impact crater

Self-driving spacecraft set for planetary defence expedition

05/04/2019 7030 views 64 likes

Bright spots on Ceres

ESA’s Hera asteroid mission borrows eyes of NASA’s Dawn

18/03/2019 7930 views 96 likes

Hera at Didymos

ESA plans mission to smallest asteroid ever visited

04/02/2019 15896 views 130 likes

ESA Columbus module

Hundreds of impacts crater ESA’s Columbus science laboratory

23/01/2019 8179 views 96 likes

Hera networking with CubeSats

CubeSats joining Hera mission to asteroid system

07/01/2019 13388 views 117 likes

Lunar impact Gif

Learning from lunar lights

07/12/2018 12008 views 151 likes

Hera validates crater formation models

Berlin museum hosts meeting on Europe’s next asteroid missi…

13/11/2018 2106 views 32 likes

Hera measures Didymoon's size, shape and mass

Earth’s first missions to a binary asteroid, for planetary …

25/06/2018 13567 views 153 likes

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