The European Space Agency has issued a new challenge to amateur astronomers across the world. An asteroid is classified as a near-Earth object when its distance from our planet is less than 1.3 times the distance from Earth to the Sun, according to the Nasa Joint Propulsion Laboratory. Near-Earth asteroids fascinate ESA’s Planetary Defence Office in particular because they give …
It is safe to say that the riskiest asteroid known to humankind will not impact the Earth, at least not for the next century. A threatening space rock topping the risk lists around the globe for months, with a real chance of striking Earth on April 2, 2052, has been removed from the dangerous category. The European Space Agency ’s …
UAE’s spacecraft for the mission will take seven years to build and will allow it to land on one asteroid 560 million kilometres away from the Earth in 2033. After becoming the first Arab country to reach Mars, the United Arab Emirates Space Agency has announced that it will explore the planet Venus by the end of this decade, aiming …
The Hera mission will be the first spacecraft in history to explore a binary asteroid system. The European Space Agency has awarded €129.4 million in contracts to design, manufacture and test its Hera spacecraft, the space agency’s first planetary defence mission. According to a report by The Guardian, Hera is the European Space Agency’s contribution to an experiment called the …
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