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Asteroid passing Earth

ESA to live tweet asteroid impact exercise

26/04/2021 5269 views 65 likes

When the atmosphere isn't enough

19/04/2021 4769 views 64 likes

Apophis impact ruled out for the first time

26/03/2021 25002 views 110 likes

Gaia mapping the stars of the Milky Way

Gaia revolutionises asteroid tracking

01/07/2020 6478 views 88 likes

Space Safety

An Agency for asteroids

23/06/2020 4423 views 27 likes

Brian May, Astrophysicist and Rockstar

Queen’s Brian May works to probe origin of asteroids

02/06/2020 10149 views 64 likes

Opening ESA's Optical Ground Station

Enabling & Support

ESA’s Tenerife telescope resumes watching the sky

30/04/2020 3912 views 52 likes

Juventas radar CubeSat

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

23/10/2019 2782 views 5 likes

NASA's DART impacting asteroid

Driving diamond into asteroid dust helps model planetary de…

19/09/2019 2621 views 13 likes

Artist impression of ‘Oumuamua

Interstellar 2.0

12/09/2019 21826 views 246 likes

Hera approaches the impact scene

A burst of asteroid activity in Europe

10/09/2019 12919 views 101 likes

Hera at Dimorphos

Europe and US teaming up for asteroid deflection

02/09/2019 30711 views 162 likes

Asteroid '2019 OK' observed moving against backdrop of stars

Asteroid's surprise close approach illustrates need for mor…

02/08/2019 23593 views 181 likes

Lutetia

ESA confirms asteroid will miss Earth in 2019

16/07/2019 32983 views 160 likes

CubeSat approaching asteroid

When CubeSats meet asteroid

28/06/2019 6353 views 78 likes

DART impacting asteroid

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

27/06/2019 3389 views 54 likes

Asteroid Ryugu

ESA marks Asteroid Day on 30 June

24/06/2019 5916 views 57 likes

Hera surveying Dimorphos

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

11/06/2019 5030 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 6640 views 56 likes

Hera gets its own logo

03/05/2019 2765 views 15 likes

APEX CubeSat

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

02/05/2019 6738 views 68 likes

Juventas CubeSat

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

01/05/2019 9433 views 87 likes

The day the asteroid might hit

26/04/2019 39329 views 152 likes

SCI impactor on way to Ryugu asteroid

Earth vs. asteroids: humans strike back

22/04/2019 12461 views 148 likes

Infrared imaging of the impact crater

Self-driving spacecraft set for planetary defence expedition

05/04/2019 6484 views 63 likes

Bright spots on Ceres

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

18/03/2019 7522 views 96 likes

Hera at Didymos

ESA plans mission to smallest asteroid ever visited

04/02/2019 15448 views 130 likes

ESA Columbus module

Hundreds of impacts crater ESA’s Columbus science laboratory

23/01/2019 7757 views 95 likes

Hera networking with CubeSats

CubeSats joining Hera mission to asteroid system

07/01/2019 13019 views 117 likes

Lunar impact Gif

Learning from lunar lights

07/12/2018 10532 views 150 likes

Hera validates crater formation models

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

13/11/2018 1964 views 32 likes

Hera measures Didymoon's size, shape and mass

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

25/06/2018 13095 views 153 likes

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