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What happened this month at the European Space Agency? (October 2026)
October was a month of discoveries and milestones. ESA’s Rosalind Franklin rover team trained in Spain’s desert, preparing for Mars. Our Smile mis...
NASA’s Neo Surveyor Sunshade
A technician inspects the large sunshade of NASA’s Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor mission in this image released on Oct. 26, 2026. The sunshade st...
First light: Hera resolves two asteroids instead of one
The European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft for planetary defence has resolved its two target asteroids separately for the very first time, revealin...
Braking news! Time for ESA’s Hera asteroid mission to go slow
Launched two years ago today, the European Space Agency’s Hera mission for planetary defence has been hurtling away from Earth ever since. The small...
Brake! Time for ESA’s Hera asteroid mission to go slow
Launched two years ago today, the European Space Agency’s Hera mission for planetary defence has been hurtling away from Earth ever since. The small...
The Incredible Adventures of the Hera mission – The space detectives arrive
Meet Hera, our very own asteroid detective. Together with two CubeSats – Milani the rock decoder and Juventas the radar visionary – Hera is off o...
Finding Hera’s way: ESA’s Flight Dynamics team into action
The European Space Agency’s Hera planetary defence mission team is preparing to light a fire in the sky. On the early morning of 15 October the smal...
Finding Hera’s way: Flight Dynamics team in action
The European Space Agency’s Hera planetary defence mission team is preparing to light a fire in the sky. On the early morning of 15 October the smal...
First switch on for ESA-JAXA Ramses asteroid mission
The European Space Agency’s and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Ramses planetary defence spacecraft has been turned on for the first time by ...
A hitchhiker’s guide to Hera’s target asteroids
Currently speeding through deep space at 12 km/s relative to Earth, ESA’s Hera spacecraft is due to reach its target Dimorphos asteroid this Novembe...
China progresses plans for Mars sample return, asteroid flyby and more launch sites
As China integrates crewed and robotic missions to further its lunar exploration program, it is…
The post China progresses plans for Mars sample re...
Questions? Ask our Hera Space Companion!
Meet a key member of our Hera asteroid mission team: the Hera Space Companion, not just an AI chatbot but a dynamic mission-linked communication platf...
Name our dino – ESA’s Hera asteroid mission mascot!
The European Space Agency’s Hera asteroid mission for planetary defence has a cartoon dinosaur for its mascot – because dinos were made extinct af...
Cruise control: the team guiding Hera to its asteroid
First the European Space Agency's Hera asteroid mission separated from its launcher on 7 October 2024, next its lengthy ‘cruise phase’ began – t...
Your chance to run software in deep space on ESA's asteroid mission
The European Space Agency is offering European researchers and companies a rare and exciting opportunity to run their innovative software directly in ...
Interworld Slingshot Resource Surveys
Pablo SobronSETI Institute This proposal explores a new class of reconnaissance spacecraft that map minerals from orbit using Raman spectroscopy duri...
NASA Study Finds Near-Earth Asteroid Is Actually Comet
New research led by scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California has revealed the identity of a puzzling near-Earth object ...
NASA Study of Pristine Meteorite Adds to Story of Ancient Asteroids
A meteorite recovered immediately upon its fall to Earth on July 16, 2024, is helping NASA scientists uncover new clues about ancient water, the chemi...
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Reads Record of Ancient Mars Impacts
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has uncovered evidence that a 245-foot-thick (75-meter-thick) stack of ancient rock on the rim of Jezero Crater was b...
ESA Taps Spain’s EMXYS to Build €10M Don Quijote Asteroid Lander
The European Space Agency has awarded Spanish satellite manufacturer EMXYS a contract to build a small lander that will attempt to touch down on the s...