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Ramses mission patch
Space Safety

Second CubeSat joins ESA’s Ramses mission to asteroid Apoph…

20/05/2025 2215 views 53 likes
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Cartoon Hera made using LEGO® bricks, designed by Frans Snik
Space Safety

Hera’s incredible adventures in brick building

13/03/2025 2108 views 31 likes
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Sir Brian May and the rest of Hera's science team see Mars image arrive
Space Safety

Hera asteroid mission spies Mars’s Deimos moon

13/03/2025 21482 views 135 likes
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Hera swings by Mars
Space Safety

Watch live: Images from Hera’s Mars flyby

10/03/2025 25541 views 116 likes
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Ramses mission patch
Space Safety

First CubeSat joins ESA's Ramses mission to asteroid Apophis

05/03/2025 4190 views 51 likes
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Asteroid 2024 YR4 impact risk rises and falls
Space Safety

Asteroid 2024 YR4 no longer poses significant impact risk

25/02/2025 24688 views 89 likes
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Near-Earth objects
Space Safety

ESA endorses Year of Asteroid Awareness and Planetary Defen…

07/02/2025 7442 views 61 likes
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Asteroid - artist's impression
Space Safety

ESA actively monitoring near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4

29/01/2025 183956 views 145 likes
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Hera fires its thrusters
Enabling & Support

Hera burns towards Mars

08/11/2024 5140 views 65 likes
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ESA's Ramses mission to asteroid Apophis
Space Safety

ESA moves forward with Apophis mission preparations

17/10/2024 12963 views 125 likes
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Hera's first images (Asteroid Framing Camera - Earth)
Space Safety

Hera’s first images offer parting glimpse of Earth and Moon

14/10/2024 14351 views 138 likes
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Members of the Hera operations team on launch day
Space Safety

Hera takes flight: Didymos, here we come

10/10/2024 4469 views 54 likes
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Planetary defence mission Hera heading for deflected astero…

07/10/2024 15538 views 42 likes
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Hera launch animation still
Space Safety

Hera launch: how to watch

04/10/2024 20878 views 92 likes
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ESA’s final observations of asteroid 2024 RW1
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Asteroid 2024 RW1 impact – ESA analysis

09/09/2024 6538 views 18 likes
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Space Safety

Debris from DART impact could reach Earth

06/09/2024 9092 views 50 likes
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Hera departs ESA test centre
Space Safety

Goodbye Hera: asteroid mission departs ESA test centre

02/09/2024 2390 views 19 likes
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ESA's Ramses mission to asteroid Apophis
Space Safety

Introducing Ramses, ESA’s mission to asteroid Apophis

16/07/2024 32849 views 148 likes
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Near-Earth objects
Space Safety

Two large asteroids safely pass Earth just 42 hours apart

24/06/2024 39825 views 42 likes
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Meteor seen by Meteosat Third Generation Imager
Applications

Fireball witnessed by weather satellite

22/05/2024 5474 views 27 likes
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Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks
Space Safety

‘Mother of Dragons’ comet visible in the night sky

26/03/2024 189241 views 124 likes
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Chelyabinsk asteroid trail
Space Safety

10 years preparing for 'Armageddon'

08/02/2024 6093 views 45 likes
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Asteroid 2024 BX1 tracked prior to impact
Space Safety

Asteroid 2024 BX1 spotted three hours before impact

25/01/2024 8819 views 26 likes
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Juventas studies asteroid's internal structure
Space Safety

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

10/08/2023 5121 views 65 likes
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Hubble sees boulders escaping from asteroid Dimorphos
Science & Exploration

Hubble sees boulders escaping from asteroid Dimorphos

20/07/2023 10892 views 121 likes
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Dimorphos asteroid seen by DART
Space Safety

Imagine walking on Hera’s asteroid

30/06/2023 4587 views 78 likes
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Hera and its CubeSats at Didymos system
Space Safety

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

29/06/2023 3478 views 41 likes
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GRASS gravimeter on shaker
Space Safety

Instrument to measure asteroid gravity tested for space

22/05/2023 6314 views 66 likes
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Hera, her CubeSats, and their rocky target destination
Space Safety

What colour is an asteroid? Hyperspectral imager to find out

24/04/2023 3136 views 44 likes
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Science & Exploration

Webb detects extremely small main-belt asteroid

06/02/2023 12633 views 125 likes
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Space Safety

Curious comet’s rare close approach

01/02/2023 35291 views 243 likes
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Artist's impression of asteroid 21 Lutetia
Space Safety

Christmas challenge: find mystery asteroid

09/12/2022 10905 views 52 likes
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Aten asteroids in orbit, with ESA's orbit visualisation tool
Space Safety

ESA asteroid toolkit: how to guide

09/12/2022 7746 views 21 likes
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Time-lapse photograph of 2022 WJ1 taken by astronomer Robert Weryk in Ontario, Canada
Space Safety

The sixth asteroid impact we saw coming

24/11/2022 59161 views 142 likes
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ESA's Optical Ground Station
Enabling & Support

ESA’s site for laser and quantum links marks 25 years

18/11/2022 2681 views 52 likes
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Artist's impression of asteroid 21 Lutetia
Space Safety

30 000 near-Earth asteroids discovered and rising

12/10/2022 20027 views 65 likes
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LICIACube image of asteroid ejecta
Space Safety

First kinetic impact test succeeds in shifting asteroid orb…

12/10/2022 5928 views 55 likes
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Science & Exploration

Webb and Hubble capture detailed views of DART impact

29/09/2022 12888 views 116 likes
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Plume ejects from Dimorphos as DART impacts
Space Safety

ESA to capture light from deflected asteroid’s new plume

26/09/2022 24993 views 79 likes
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DART impacting asteroid
Space Safety

ESA deep space network tracks DART asteroid impact

20/09/2022 14945 views 104 likes
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Space Safety

Madrid meteor's cometary origins unearthed

09/08/2022 6761 views 63 likes
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A busy field of stars hide once-risky asteroid 2021 QM1
Space Safety

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

29/06/2022 44252 views 73 likes
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Space Safety & Security at ESA
Space Safety

New home for Earth’s protectors

12/04/2022 9892 views 66 likes
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Kleť Observatory sees asteroid 2022 EB5, 13 minutes before impact
Space Safety

Fifth asteroid ever discovered before impact

15/03/2022 19776 views 149 likes
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Asteroid 2022 AE1 observed with the Calar Alto Schmidt telescope in Spain
Space Safety

The rise and fall of the riskiest asteroid in a decade

24/02/2022 77006 views 99 likes
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Asteroid 2020 XL5 has been confirmed as the second known Earth Trojan asteroid
Space Safety

Newly discovered asteroid just second of its kind

01/02/2022 8813 views 113 likes
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Real colour composite image of comet Leonard
Space Safety

Comet Leonard soon visible to naked eye?

08/12/2021 40885 views 151 likes
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ESA's 4.5m tracking antenna, New Norcia, Western Australia
Enabling & Support

Catching asteroid deflection mission's first words

22/11/2021 13011 views 104 likes
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NASA's DART impacting asteroid
Space Safety

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

18/11/2021 8048 views 79 likes
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Space Safety

Scaling up ESA’s asteroid facilities

11/10/2021 5743 views 60 likes
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