The 1,100-foot-wide (340 meters) Apophis, also known as asteroid 99942, is set to make a very close, but safe, flyby of Earth on April 13, 2029. The European Space Agency (ESA) is preparing its Ramses ...

ESA’s Hera mission is two-year flight to the Didymos binary asteroid system. See its trajectory here. Credit: ESA - European ...

China launches Tianwen-2 mission to sample near Earth asteroid China launched its second planetary exploration mission ...

A gyroscope navigation system developed by an Irish company is to be launched into space as part of a mission to test and ...

Dublin-based space-tech company InnaLabs has secured its second contract with the ESA and is set to join the Ramses space mission in 2028.

Innalabs, a Dublin-based innovator in advanced inertial sensor technology, has secured its second major contract with GMV, OHB, and the European Space Agency (ESA). Building on the success of the ...

In 2022, NASA’s DART mission intentionally collided with the small asteroid Dimorphos and successfully changed its orbital path, the agency said. ESA launched its Hera mission in October to ...

Here’s how it works. A newly discovered house-size asteroid is set to make a close, yet harmless approach to Earth today (May 21), passing within one-third of the Earth-moon distance.

In 2023, his vision found a home in the Hera spacecraft mission of the European Space Agency (ESA). It was set to embark for the Didymos binary asteroid system the following year to gather data for a ...

HELSINKI — China is set to launch its second Tianwen deep space exploration mission late May, targeting both a near Earth asteroid and a main belt comet. The Tianwen-2 spacecraft is now being ...

BEIJING, May 18 (Reuters) - China is preparing to launch near-Earth asteroid probe Tianwen-2 at the end of May, state-run CCTV reported on Sunday, in the country's first mission to collect samples ...

NASA warns of a massive 330-foot asteroid, 2025 DT50, approaching close to Earth today, May 14. Representative image created using AI. follow us follow us A huge asteroid the size of a 30-story ...