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‘Mother of Dragons’ comet visible in the night sky
26/03/2024
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10 years preparing for 'Armageddon'
08/02/2024
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Asteroid 2024 BX1 spotted three hours before impact
25/01/2024
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Hera’s mini-radar will probe asteroid’s heart
10/08/2023
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Hubble sees boulders escaping from asteroid Dimorphos
20/07/2023
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Imagine walking on Hera’s asteroid
30/06/2023
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Precision deployer to put Hera’s CubeSats into asteroid orb…
29/06/2023
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Instrument to measure asteroid gravity tested for space
22/05/2023
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What colour is an asteroid? Hyperspectral imager to find out
24/04/2023
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NEOMIR: finding risky asteroids outshone by Sun
17/02/2023
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Webb detects extremely small main-belt asteroid
06/02/2023
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Curious comet’s rare close approach
01/02/2023
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Christmas challenge: find mystery asteroid
09/12/2022
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ESA asteroid toolkit: how to guide
09/12/2022
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The sixth asteroid impact we saw coming
24/11/2022
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ESA’s site for laser and quantum links marks 25 years
18/11/2022
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30 000 near-Earth asteroids discovered and rising
12/10/2022
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First kinetic impact test succeeds in shifting asteroid orb…
12/10/2022
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Webb and Hubble capture detailed views of DART impact
29/09/2022
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ESA to capture light from deflected asteroid’s new plume
26/09/2022
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ESA deep space network tracks DART asteroid impact
20/09/2022
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Madrid meteor's cometary origins unearthed
09/08/2022
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Impact in 2052 ruled out as ESA counts down to Asteroid Day
29/06/2022
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New home for Earth’s protectors
12/04/2022
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Fifth asteroid ever discovered before impact
15/03/2022
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The rise and fall of the riskiest asteroid in a decade
24/02/2022
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Newly discovered asteroid just second of its kind
01/02/2022
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Comet Leonard soon visible to naked eye?
08/12/2021
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Catching asteroid deflection mission's first words
22/11/2021
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Planetary defenders: after NASA’s DART comes ESA’s Hera
18/11/2021
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Scaling up ESA’s asteroid facilities
11/10/2021
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CubeSat will sift asteroid secrets from reflected sunshine
30/06/2021
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CubeSat named for pioneer of European planetary defence
30/06/2021
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ESA joins Asteroid Day for rocky live broadcast
29/06/2021
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Hang out with Europe’s top space experts
23/06/2021
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ESA’s digital celebration of space safety and Asteroid Day
14/06/2021
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The Incredible Adventures of the Hera mission – Presenting …
01/06/2021
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ESA Explores a fictional asteroid impact
28/04/2021
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New ESA telescope in South America to search for asteroids
27/04/2021
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ESA to live tweet asteroid impact exercise
26/04/2021
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When the atmosphere isn't enough
19/04/2021
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Apophis impact ruled out for the first time
26/03/2021
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Gaia revolutionises asteroid tracking
01/07/2020
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An Agency for asteroids
23/06/2020
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Queen’s Brian May works to probe origin of asteroids
02/06/2020
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ESA’s Tenerife telescope resumes watching the sky
30/04/2020
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Hera’s radar CubeSat will peer into asteroid’s heart
23/10/2019
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Driving diamond into asteroid dust helps model planetary de…
19/09/2019
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Interstellar 2.0
12/09/2019
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A burst of asteroid activity in Europe
10/09/2019
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