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Hera fires its thrusters

Enabling & Support

Hera burns towards Mars

08/11/2024 3419 views 59 likes

ESA's Ramses mission to asteroid Apophis

ESA moves forward with Apophis mission preparations

17/10/2024 11299 views 117 likes

Hera's first images (Asteroid Framing Camera - Earth)

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

14/10/2024 13181 views 137 likes

Members of the Hera operations team on launch day

Hera takes flight: Didymos, here we come

10/10/2024 3660 views 52 likes

Planetary defence mission Hera heading for deflected astero…

07/10/2024 14251 views 39 likes

Hera launch animation still

Hera launch: how to watch

04/10/2024 19841 views 91 likes

ESA’s final observations of asteroid 2024 RW1

Asteroid 2024 RW1 impact – ESA analysis

09/09/2024 5689 views 18 likes

Debris from DART impact could reach Earth

06/09/2024 8413 views 49 likes

Hera departs ESA test centre

Goodbye Hera: asteroid mission departs ESA test centre

02/09/2024 1999 views 19 likes

ESA's Ramses mission to asteroid Apophis

Introducing Ramses, ESA’s mission to asteroid Apophis

16/07/2024 25504 views 137 likes

Near-Earth objects

Two large asteroids safely pass Earth just 42 hours apart

24/06/2024 35015 views 42 likes

Meteor seen by Meteosat Third Generation Imager

Fireball witnessed by weather satellite

22/05/2024 5200 views 27 likes

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks

‘Mother of Dragons’ comet visible in the night sky

26/03/2024 186950 views 124 likes

Chelyabinsk asteroid trail

10 years preparing for 'Armageddon'

08/02/2024 5236 views 45 likes

Asteroid 2024 BX1 tracked prior to impact

Asteroid 2024 BX1 spotted three hours before impact

25/01/2024 8111 views 26 likes

Juventas studies asteroid's internal structure

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

10/08/2023 4739 views 65 likes

Hubble sees boulders escaping from asteroid Dimorphos

Science & Exploration

Hubble sees boulders escaping from asteroid Dimorphos

20/07/2023 10674 views 121 likes

Dimorphos asteroid seen by DART

Imagine walking on Hera’s asteroid

30/06/2023 4479 views 78 likes

Hera and its CubeSats at Didymos system

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

29/06/2023 3207 views 41 likes

GRASS gravimeter on shaker

Instrument to measure asteroid gravity tested for space

22/05/2023 5926 views 66 likes

Hera, her CubeSats, and their rocky target destination

What colour is an asteroid? Hyperspectral imager to find out

24/04/2023 3031 views 44 likes

Science & Exploration

Webb detects extremely small main-belt asteroid

06/02/2023 12063 views 125 likes

Curious comet’s rare close approach

01/02/2023 35114 views 243 likes

Artist's impression of asteroid 21 Lutetia

Christmas challenge: find mystery asteroid

09/12/2022 10730 views 52 likes

Aten asteroids in orbit, with ESA's orbit visualisation tool

ESA asteroid toolkit: how to guide

09/12/2022 7195 views 20 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 57918 views 140 likes

ESA's Optical Ground Station

Enabling & Support

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

18/11/2022 2446 views 52 likes

Artist's impression of asteroid 21 Lutetia

30 000 near-Earth asteroids discovered and rising

12/10/2022 19182 views 65 likes

LICIACube image of asteroid ejecta

First kinetic impact test succeeds in shifting asteroid orb…

12/10/2022 5576 views 55 likes

Science & Exploration

Webb and Hubble capture detailed views of DART impact

29/09/2022 12694 views 116 likes

Plume ejects from Dimorphos as DART impacts

ESA to capture light from deflected asteroid’s new plume

26/09/2022 24843 views 79 likes

DART impacting asteroid

ESA deep space network tracks DART asteroid impact

20/09/2022 14776 views 104 likes

Madrid meteor's cometary origins unearthed

09/08/2022 6612 views 63 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 43995 views 73 likes

Space Safety & Security at ESA

New home for Earth’s protectors

12/04/2022 9694 views 65 likes

Kleť Observatory sees asteroid 2022 EB5, 13 minutes before impact

Fifth asteroid ever discovered before impact

15/03/2022 19547 views 149 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 76199 views 97 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 8623 views 113 likes

Real colour composite image of comet Leonard

Comet Leonard soon visible to naked eye?

08/12/2021 40730 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 12908 views 104 likes

NASA's DART impacting asteroid

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

18/11/2021 7834 views 79 likes

Scaling up ESA’s asteroid facilities

11/10/2021 5628 views 60 likes

Milani scans Didymos

CubeSat will sift asteroid secrets from reflected sunshine

30/06/2021 6037 views 53 likes

Milani studies asteroid dust

CubeSat named for pioneer of European planetary defence

30/06/2021 2810 views 26 likes

Incoming asteroid

ESA joins Asteroid Day for rocky live broadcast

29/06/2021 3988 views 63 likes

Space Safety

Hang out with Europe’s top space experts

23/06/2021 8377 views 56 likes

Space Safety & Security at ESA

ESA’s digital celebration of space safety and Asteroid Day

14/06/2021 5577 views 46 likes

Hera in space

The Incredible Adventures of the Hera mission – Presenting …

01/06/2021 5756 views 76 likes

ESA Explores a fictional asteroid impact

28/04/2021 3124 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 7903 views 74 likes

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